Elimination of Postoperative Narcotics in Infant Robotic Pyeloplasty Using Caudal Anesthesia and a Non-Narcotic Pain Pathway.

Research suggests that narcotic pain medications are dramatically overprescribed. We hypothesize that narcotics are unnecessary for postoperative pain control in most infants undergoing robotic pyeloplasty. In this series, we report our experience combining caudal blocks with a non-narcotic postoperative pathway as a means of eliminating postoperative narcotics after infant robotic pyeloplasty.