Published results showed pediatric patients who had closed reduction and percutaneous pinning of a supracondylar humeral fracture and a nonopioid analgesia protocol showed similar pain scores compared with those who had opioid analgesia.
Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia performed a multicenter, comparative study to analyze postoperative pain scores from 157 pediatric patients (median age of 6.2 years) who underwent closed reduction and percutaneous pinning of a supracondylar humeral fracture.
According to the study, 81 patients received a standard opioid protocol of
