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Individualized multidisciplinary analgesia to prevent persistent postsurgical pain
Anne Lukas1,2,3, Wolfgang Buhre1,2
1Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine.
Purpose Of Review:
Persistent postsurgical pain as outcome of surgery has reached more attention in the past years. In the first place because of related disability, long-term use of (opioid)analgesics and impact on the quality of life of individual patients. In addition, the individual and societal socio-economic burden of PPSP is high and increasing in the light of increasing numbers of surgery world-wide.
Recent Findings:
Actual studies identified risk factors for persistent postsurgical pain in relevant patient populations. Astonishingly, most of predicting factors seem unrelated to surgery.
Summary:
Future perioperative practice will have to focus on identifying patients at risk for PPSP before surgery and develop/offer suitable individually tailored preventive interventions.
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