Acute Postoperative Pain

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 ...

Acute Postoperative Pain Control

Acute Postoperative Pain

One of the most important causes of postoperative morbidity and mortality is insufficiently treated pain. Postoperarive pain that could not be treated sufficiently leads to problems like reduction in vital capacity and alveolar ventilation, pneumonia, tachycardia, hypertension, myocardial ischemia and infarction, conversion to chronic pain, delay in wound healing and prolonged hospital stay. Th...

Gabapentin for Acute Postoperative Pain

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Acute postoperative pain in children.

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