The World Health Organization and International Association for the Study of Pain have recognized pain relief as a human right. Inappropriate management of pain can lead to complications and prolonged rehabilitation. Hence, monitoring of pain relief is increasingly becoming an important postoperative quality measure. Recent advances in surgical procedures address the issue of pain management.
This article thus outlines these recent advances for effective pain management in postoperative settings. Appropriate pain relief leads to shortened hospital stays, reduced hospital costs, and increased patient satisfaction. Hence, as a result, the management of postoperative pain is an increasingly monitored quality measure. The catastrophe of inappropriate pain management is multifactorial that involves insufficient education, fear of complications associated with analgesic drugs, poor pain…
