[Ways of improving postoperative analgesia]

Analysis of many-year experience gained in the use of a variety of methods and means for treating the painful syndrome in victims and patients after planned and urgent surgery allowed the authors to determine the optimal approaches to postoperative analgesia. Special attention is paid to introduction of new drugs and methods of analgesia with differentiated approach to prevention and treatment of the painful syndrome. A conclusion on the necessity of pathogenetically based and strictly individual postoperative analgesia is made; such analgesia is often to be multilevel and multicomponent, with consideration for the complex origin of painful reaction (including the components of the painful syndrome) and the armory of available means.