Longnecker's Anesthesiology >
Chapter 74. Management of Acute Postoperative Pain

Hadzic's Regional Anesthesia >
Chapter 77. The Role of Nonopioid Analgesic Techniques in the Management of Postoperative Pain

Principles & Practice of Pain Medicine >
Chapter 41. Preemptive Analgesia

Longnecker's Anesthesiology > Chapter 73. Postoperative Complications >
Complicated Acute Pain Management
... increased knowledge of the mechanisms of acute pain and increased emphasis on pain management programs, postoperative pain continues to be undermanaged (Fig. ...

Lange Anesthesiology > Chapter 18. Pain Management >
Case Discussion: Analgesia Following Thoracoabdominal Surgery
... to an epidural catheter for managing his pain postoperatively. Unfortunately, placement of the catheter prior to surgery proved to be very difficult because of his obesity, and ...

Lange Anesthesiology > Chapter 18. Pain Management >
Postoperative Pain
... analgesia (above) suggests that the best postoperative pain management begins preoperatively. Some studies suggest that anesthetic techniques can also reduce the neuroendocrine ...

Hadzic's Regional Anesthesia > Chapter 76. Preemptive Analgesia, Regional Anesthesia, & the Prevention of Chronic Postoperative Pain >
Chronic Pain Syndromes Following Surgery
... its prevalence, our understanding of chronic postoperative pain and the potential means of risk reduction are somewhat deficient. We need to classify these chronic pain ...

Principles & Practice of Pain Medicine > Chapter 42. Acute Pain Management in Adults >
Neuraxial Opioids and Local Anesthetics
... a cumulative meta-analysis of various postoperative therapies shows that epidural opioids and epidural local anesthetics with or without opioids decreased the incidence of pulmonary ...

Principles & Practice of Pain Medicine > Chapter 42. Acute Pain Management in Adults >
Postoperative Pain: The Problem
... endings and activates specific nociceptors ( pain receptors) as well as free nerve endings. It is associated with the release of inflammatory mediators such as bradykinin, serotonin, and ...

Principles & Practice of Pain Medicine > Chapter 42. Acute Pain Management in Adults >
Systemic Analgesics
... Opioids Opioids remain the mainstay of postoperative analgesia and have demonstrated their efficacy in the management of severe pain. The main concerns about the use of opioids ...