Consensus Statement: Toward Opioid-Free Arthroplasty: A Leadership Forum

As part of ongoing efforts to address the opioid crisis, on June 1, 2018, HSS Journal® convened a multidisciplinary panel of experts for a daylong discussion: Toward Opioid-Free Arthroplasty: A Leadership Forum. Each invited participant presented on a specific aspect of the opioid crisis and/or pain management as it relates to total hip or knee arthroplasty. Representing orthopedics, anesthesiology, psychiatry, bioethics, health information technology, and law, this group crafted a consensus statement on appropriate pain management for total hip or knee arthroplasty. Many have also contributed to this special issue of HSS Journal on “Opioid Prescribing and Pain Management” (February 2019) (Fig. 1). Open in a separate window Fig. 1 Participants in Toward Opioid-Free Arthroplasty: A Leadership Forum, June 1, 2018, at Hospital for Special Surgery (pictured left to right): Travis N. Rieder, PhD, Christopher Lee Wu, MD, Jonathan Avery, MD, Seth Waldman, MD, Charles N. Cornell, MD, Ellen M. Soffin, MD, PhD, William Schairer, MD, Mark Barnes, JD, LLM, Alex Rich, MPH, and Louis A. Shapiro, FACHE. (Not pictured: Todd J. Albert, MD, and E. Carlos Rodriguez-Merchan, MD, PhD.) Photograph by Robert Essel.