Postoperative pain management in the postanesthesia care unit: an update
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Postoperative pain management in the postanesthesia care unit: an update
Acute postoperative pain remains a major problem, resulting in multiple undesirable outcomes if inadequately controlled. Most surgical patients spend their immediate postoperative period in the postanesthesia care unit (PACU), where pain management, being unsatisfactory and requiring improvements, affects further recovery. Recent studies on postoperative pain management in the PACU were reviewe...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Pain Research
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1178-7090
DOI: 10.2147/jpr.s142889