Postoperative pain and its management

From: Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine | Date: October 1, 2007| Author: Chaturvedi, Sona; Chaturvedi, Amit | Copyright information

Introduction

The Taxonomy Committee of International Association for the study of Pain (IASP) defines pain as "An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage". [1] Postoperative pain is considered a form of acute pain due to surgical trauma with an inflammatory reaction and initiation of an afferent neuronal barrage. It is a combined constellation of several unpleasant sensory, emotional and mental e...

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