The Acute Pain Summit 2005 was convened to critically examine the perceptions of
physicians about current methods used to control postoperative pain and to compare those …

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

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

Postoperative pain has been poorly managed for decades. Recent surveys from USA and
Europe do not show any major improvement. Persistent postoperative pain is common after …

The perioperative period is stressful, with many pathophysiologic alterations rendering
patients vulnerable to several potential adverse events. In the last few years, it increasingly …

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

Intuitively it seems obvious that unrelieved, severe acute pain after surgery may have a
number of undesirable effects [1]. Many experienced clinicians maintain that the immediate …

Inadequate postoperative pain management is an international problem and the need to
improve its management is well documented. This review outlines some of the commonly …

Background and Objectives Postoperative pain is the expected but nonetheless undesirable
byproduct of all surgical procedures. Humanitarian concerns and recent quasi-governmental …

Procedure-specific postoperative pain management guidelines arguably are more helpful to
the clinician than general pain guidelines or guidelines based on the use of the Oxford …