CHARLOTTE, N.C.—Patients who undergo laparoscopic or robotic inguinal hernia repair require fewer opioids to manage their postoperative pain compared with open surgery, with a trend toward no opioid consumption after robotic repair and with increasing age, according to the results of a new study.
“A lot of initial research that compared open and minimally invasive surgery found less pain and less opioid use with the minimally invasive procedures; however, since the