Acute Pain Assessment in Sedated Patients in the Postanesthesia Care Unit
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Acute pain management in the postanesthesia care unit.
Pain management in the postanesthesia care unit (PACU) is continually evolving, with several new nonopioids expanding the list of available agents. Pain in the PACU is not an inevitable outcome of surgery. With careful planning, multimodal analgesic techniques instituted preoperatively will reduce pain in the PACU. Accurate assessment of the characteristics of pain will direct rational drug cho...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Clinical Journal of Pain
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0749-8047
DOI: 10.1097/ajp.0000000000000593