Commentary Open Access
Volume 3 | Issue 1 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.46439/anesthesia.3.016
Mind-body approaches for reducing the need for post-operative opioids: Evidence and opportunities
Bethany D. Pester1, Robert R. Edwards1,*, Marc O. Martel2, Christopher J. Gilligan1, Samantha M. Meints1
- 1Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
- 2Faculty of Dentistry and Department of Anesthesiology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Corresponding Author
Robert R. Edwards, edwards@bwh.harvard.edu
Received Date: October 18, 2021
Accepted Date: November 22, 2021
Pester BD, Edwards RR, Martel MO, Gilligan CJ, Meints SM. Mind-body approaches for reducing the need for post-operative opioids: Evidence and opportunities.. J Clin Anesth Intensive Care. 2022; 3(1): 1-5.
Copyright: © 2022 Pester BD, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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