DESPITE recent advances in our understanding of the physiology of acute pain, the
development of new opioid and nonopioid analgesics and novel methods of drug delivery …

Despite a significant improvement over the last decade in our understanding of acute (and
chronic) pain mechanisms [1] and the establishment of acute pain services [2, 3], recently …

Post-operative pain management protocols may be optimised by examining procedure-
specific evidence and outcomes. This recognition led to the formation of the PROcedure …

Adequate control of postoperative pain following surgery can be a challenging task. 1, 2
Previous studies have shown that more than 50% of patients undergoing surgery report …

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 …

Surgical injury is followed by pain, risk of organ dysfunctions, morbidity, prolonged hospital
stay (length of stay [LOS]), readmissions, and delayed convalescence. However, despite an …

Most patients who undergo surgical procedures experience acute postoperative pain, but
evidence suggests that less than half report adequate postoperative pain relief. Many …

Existing general guidelines for perioperative pain management do not consider procedure-
specific differences in analgesic efficacy or applicability of a given analgesic technique. For …

PAIN after surgery continues to be a major management challenge in clinical practice. In a
recent meta-analysis covering some 20,000 patients and 800 publications, Dolin et al. 1 …

More than 300 million patients undergo surgery worldwide each year. Pain associated with
these procedures is associated with short-and long-term negative sequelae for patients …