Researchers conducted a retrospective review of 244 adolescent patients who underwent surgery for idiopathic scoliosis. There were 129 patients who received continuous bupivacaine through a catheter and 115 who did not.
Significantly fewer (32.6 percent) of the patients in the bupivacaine group required continuous basal infusion of morphine than the control group (85.2 percent). The overall pain scores were low in both groups, and the depth of the bupivacaine catheter did not impact the postoperative opioid use.
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