Vitamin C and Reduced Opioid Consumption

• Vitamin C as an Adjuvant Analgesic Therapy in Postoperative Pain Management.

  • 2025-06-05
  • Review · n = 14
  • Journal of clinical medicine 14(11)
  • • Wioletta Mędrzycka-Dąbrowska
    • Sandra Lange
    • Sebastian Dąbrowski
    • Klaudia Długoborska
    • Renata Piotrkowska

  • PubMed: 40507754
  • DOI: 10.3390/jcm14113994

  2 Insights on

  • Reduced Opioid Consumption

  • Low evidence
  • Clinical

  The analysis showed that intraoperative or preoperative vitamin C infusion reduced opioid consumption.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Dose

  1 g to 3 g or 50 mg/kg intravenously