A manual for acute postoperative pain management
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Acute postoperative pain management.
E ffective postoperative pain control is an essential component of the care of the surgical patient. Inadequate pain control, apart from being inhumane, may result in increased morbidity or mortality (1, 2). Evidence suggests that surgery suppresses the immune system and that this suppression is proportionate to the invasiveness of the surgery (3, 4). Good analgesia can reduce this deleterious ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0885-3924
DOI: 10.1016/0885-3924(93)90110-h