Postoperative pain management
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Roman Cregg; Anthony N Gubbay; Su Cheen Ng; Maria K Stasiowska
- Source
- British journal of hospital medicine (London, England : 2005). 76(10)
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
Gabapentin
Analgesics.non-narcotic
Cyclohexanecarboxylic Acids
Postoperative pain
Pregabalin
MEDLINE
law.invention
Randomized controlled trial
law
Anesthesia, Conduction
medicine
Humans
Pain Management
Amines
Anesthetics, Local
Intensive care medicine
Acute pain
gamma-Aminobutyric Acid
Acetaminophen
Analgesics
Pain, Postoperative
business.industry
Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal
General Medicine
Pain management
Analgesics, Non-Narcotic
Analgesics, Opioid
Anesthesia
business
medicine.drug
- Language
- ISSN
- 1750-8460
This article provides an overview of current methods used in acute pain management and explains why effective analgesia is crucial in the early postoperative period. It describes the pharmacology of both common and specialist analgesics, as well as explaining the role and uses of regional and neuraxial analgesia, for the non-anaesthetist.