Adequate pain relief after surgery is essential for avoiding pain-associated stress and patient comfort in the postoperative period. The Swedish nurse anesthetist has an important role in the intraoperative management of the surgical patient by assessing and moderating individual physiological response evoked by surgical stimuli during general anesthesia. The extent to which knowledge of specif...

BACKGROUND Surgical injury can frequently lead to chronic pain. Despite the obvious importance of this problem, the first publications on chronic pain after surgery as a general topic appeared only a decade ago. This study tests the hypothesis that chronic postsurgical pain was, and still is, represented insufficiently. METHODS We analyzed the presentation of this topic in journal articles co...

1. Review the background and rational use of interventional pain techniques. 2. Assess adequate patient selection, indications, and the evidence to support the use of surgical interventional therapies for neuropathic pain. 3. Identify pros and cons of diff erent surgical ablative and functional neurosurgical interventional therapies to help determine the proper choice of technique for the treat...

BACKGROUND Post-surgical pain is prevalent in children, yet is significantly understudied. The goals of this study were to examine gender differences in pain outcomes and pain-related psychological constructs postoperatively and to identify pain-related psychological correlates of acute post-surgical pain (APSP) and predictors of functional disability 2 weeks after hospital discharge. METHODS...

Pain control is a significant issue for women undergoing gynecological procedures including first trimester surgical abortion. Pain perception is a complex phenomenon which impacts the selection of analgesia. We present a review on the efficacy of various pain control modalities for first trimester surgical abortion in the clinical

Neurostenalgia is a neuropathic pain that results from continuing irritation of an anatomically intact nerve by a noxious agent. The pain resolves promptly after surgical release of the nerve. The authors report a case of neurostenalgia of the radial nerve in which the posterior interosseous branch was compressed at the arcade of Frohse, presenting with severe arm and elbow pain. The pain was i...

Background Equine pain scoring may be affected by the residual effect of anesthetic drugs. Objectives To compare scores in hours immediately following recovery to baseline pre-anesthetic equine patients undergoing surgical and non-surgical procedures. Study design Clinical observational study. Methods Fifty adult horses anesthesia for or procedures were enrolled. Horses underwent using Composit...