Surgeon's Guide to Postsurgical Pain Management: Colorectal and Abdominal Surgery

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This handbook is designed to be highly clinically relevant and will focus on the various analgesic pharmacotherapy techniques and protocols available to minimize postoperative pain and pain medication side effects. Sections will discuss multimodal "opioid-sparing" analgesic techniques and proposed stepwise protocols incorporating short- and long-acting local analgesia, along with strategies to minimize postoperative pain¿related complications. Relevant pain pathophysiology will be presented as a framework for understanding the basis of a multimodal approach to pain management. The authors will also describe and review the persistent postsurgical pain syndrome.

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