Postoperative pain management: number-needed-to-treat approach versus procedure-specific pain management approach

Girish P Joshi¹, Stephan A Schug, Francis Bonnet+6

• ¹Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX, USA School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia Department d'Anesthésie Reanimation, Hôpital Tenon, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris, France Department of Anaesthesiology, Alexandra Hospital, Redditch, Worcestershire, UK Institute of Research in Operative Medicine, University of Witten-Herdecke, Cologne, Germany Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, University Hospital, Örebro, Sweden Department of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery Cologne-Merheim, University of Witten-Herdecke, Cologne, Germany Section for Surgical Pathophysiology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark.