Kimberly A. Murray's research while affiliated with Maine Medical Center Research Institute and other places

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Background Postoperative analgesia is paramount to recovery following thoracic surgery, and opioids play an invaluable role in this process. Yet, current one-size-fits-all prescribing practices produce large quantities of unused opioids, increasing the risk of nonmedical use and overdose. Here, we hypothesized that patient and perioperative charact...

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... It was this successful collaboration that launched Dr. Bartels' career as an independent clinical researcher. Over the next 5 years, Dr. Bartels and his colleagues went on to describe the effects of opioids and other predictors, including neuromuscular blockade reversal agents, on adverse outcomes after surgery with the work published in high-impact journals such as the Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 6 British Journal of Anaesthesia, 7 Anesthesiology, 8 JAMA Surgery, 9 and Anesthesia & Analgesia. [10][11][12] Moreover, his work 13 was rapidly integrated into guidelines, including the 2022 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain. ...