Essential elements of multimodal analgesia in enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) guidelines

A Beverly, AD Kaye, O Ljungqvist… - Anesthesiology …, 2017 - anesthesiology.theclinics.com
Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Society guidelines provide an evidencebased,
multimodal approach to surgical care, to improve outcomes after major operations. The main …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in postoperative pain management

N Vadivelu, S Mitra, D Narayan - The Yale journal of biology and …, 2010 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Good pain control after surgery is important to prevent negative outcomes such as
tachycardia, hypertension, myocardial ischemia, decrease in alveolar ventilation, and poor …

The struggle to improve patient care in the face of professional boundaries

AE Powell, HTO Davies - Social science & medicine, 2012 - Elsevier
Professional boundaries make inter-professional communication, collaboration and
teamwork more challenging and can jeopardise the provision of safe, high quality patient …

Transition from acute to chronic pain after surgery

P Lavand'homme - Pain, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Any tissue trauma can lead to “chronic pain,” which by definition is pain that persists past the
normal healing time. 40 This type of pain is frequent after surgery. In 1998, Crombie et al. 8 …

Pain management after cardiac surgery

J Cogan - Seminars in cardiothoracic and vascular …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Pain levels after cardiac surgery are often severe and undertreated. The effects of
undertreatment may be both severe and prolonged. The incidence of chronic pain after …

Perioperative pregabalin for reducing pain, analgesic consumption, and anxiety and enhancing sleep quality in elective neurosurgical patients: a prospective …

N Shimony, U Amit, B Minz, R Grossman… - Journal of …, 2016 - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess in-hospital (immediate) postoperative pain
scores and analgesic consumption (primary goals) and preoperative anxiety and sleep …

A comparison of postoperative pain after conventional open thyroidectomy and transaxillary single-incision robotic thyroidectomy: a prospective study

HR Ryu, J Lee, JH Park, SW Kang, JJ Jeong… - Annals of surgical …, 2013 - Springer
Background The aim of this study was to compare conventional open thyroidectomy with
robotic thyroidectomy in terms of postoperative pain. Methods We compared the intensity of …

Reward circuitry plasticity in pain perception and modulation

MF DosSantos, BS Moura, AF DaSilva - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Although pain is a widely known phenomenon and an important clinical symptom that
occurs in numerous diseases, its mechanisms are still barely understood. Owing to the …

Procedure-specific pain management: the road to improve postsurgical pain management?

GP Joshi, H Kehlet - Anesthesiology, 2013 - pubs.asahq.org
EDITORIAL VIEWS and pain scores assessed during well-defined movement relevant for
recovery from the procedure in question. importantly, the goal of any pain therapy should be …

[PDF][PDF] Optimization of postoperative intravenous patient-controlled analgesia with opioid-dexmedetomidine combinations: an updated meta-analysis with trial …

K Peng, J Zhang, M Xiao-wen, L Hua-yue… - Pain physician, 2017 - researchgate.net
Background: It is still a challenge to optimize postoperative pain management. The effects of
adding dexmedetomidine (DEX) to opioid-based postoperative intravenous patient …