Post-Operative Complications Associated with Long-Term NSAID or Long-Term Opioid Use Prior to Lumbar Spinal Fusion Surgery.
Clin Neurol Neurosurg
; 236: 108093, 2024 01.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
Lower back pain (LBP) has been implicated as a significant cause of chronic pain in the United States, often requiring analgesic use. In this study, we investigate the trends in long-term preoperative NSAID (LTN) and Opioid (LTO) use in patients with low back pain in the United States, and the resultant postoperative complications following lumbar fusion.METHODS:
In this retrospective cohort study of patients with lumbar pathologies, multivariate population-based regression models were developed using the 2010-2017 National Readmission Database. Short-term complications (30-, 90-day) and long-term complications (180-, 300-day) were analyzed at readmission.RESULTS:
Of patients diagnosed with LBP (N = 1427,190) we found a rise in LTO users and a fall in LTN users following 2015. We identified 654,264 individuals who received a lumbar spine fusion, of which 22,975 were LTN users and 11,213 were LTO users. LTO users had significantly higher total inpatient charges (p-value<0.0001) and LOS (p-value<0.0001), while LTN users had lower rates of acute infection (OR 0.993, 95% CI 0.987-0.999, p = 0.017) and acute posthemorrhagic anemia (OR 0.957, 95% CI 0.935-0.979, p < 0.001) at primary admission. Readmission analysis showed that LTN use had significantly lower odds of readmission compared to LTO use at all time points (p < 0.01 for all). LTN use had significantly higher odds of hardware failure (OR 1.134, 95% CI 1.039-1.237, p = 0.005) within 300-days of receiving a lumbar fusion.CONCLUSIONS:
LTO users had significantly higher readmission rates compared to LTN. In addition, we found that LTN use was associated with significantly higher odds of hardware failure at long-term follow-up in patients receiving lumbar fusion surgery.Palabras clave
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Asunto principal:
Fusión Vertebral
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Dolor de la Región Lumbar
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Trastornos Relacionados con Opioides
Tipo de estudio:
Observational_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Límite:
Humans
País/Región como asunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Clin Neurol Neurosurg
Año:
2024
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Article