Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 380-384 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Current Opinion in Anesthesiology |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jun 2022 |
Keywords
- Analgesia/adverse effects
- Analgesics, Opioid/adverse effects
- Humans
- Pain Management/adverse effects
- Pain, Postoperative/etiology
- Quality of Life
- RISK-FACTORS
- ASSOCIATIONS
- persistent postsurgical pain
- CYTOKINE GENES
- BREAST-CANCER SURGERY
- PREVALENCE
- risk factor
- NEUROPATHIC PAIN
- WOMEN
- PREDICTORS
- prediction
- DOUBLE-BLIND
- POSTOPERATIVE PAIN