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Principles of Burn Pain Management
Dominika Lipowska James1, Maryam Jowza1
1Department of Anesthesiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Abstract:
This article describes pathophysiology of burn injury-related pain and the basic principles of burn pain management. The focus is on concepts of perioperative and periprocedural pain management with extensive discussion of opioid-based analgesia, including patient-controlled analgesia, challenges of effective opioid therapy in opioid-tolerant patients, and opioid-induced hyperalgesia. The principles of multimodal pain management are discussed, including the importance of psychological counseling, perioperative interventional pain procedures, and alternative pain management options. A brief synopsis of the principles of outpatient pain management is provided.
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