Often patients referred for surgical intervention, enquire about the level of pain they may experience after an operation. Therefore, p ostoperative pain management is a major concern for clinicians as well as for patients undergoing surgery. This article outlines the importance of postoperative analgesia and the recent advances in this field. Postoperative pain not only affects the patients’ operative outcome, well-being, and satisfaction with medical care but also directly affects the development of various complex comorbid conditions, which in turn may impact the surgical outcomes.
It is most common cause of delayed discharge in patients undergoing ambulatory surgery. Moreover, the rapidly increasing number of complex surgical procedures that are performed in an outpatient setting has made perioperative pain management very essential. The recent advances in the recognition of various…
