In the scientific literature, the term preemptive analgesia is used when discussing research that compares the effects of preoperative administration of a single (most often) analgesic intervention, such as local anesthetic surgical site infiltration or oral opioid administration, with the effects of this same intervention administered immediately after surgery on the intensity of postoperative pain. Many clinicians have proposed that a more appropriate term and approach in the clinical setting is protective analgesia, whereby aggressive and sustained multimodal interventions are initiated preoperatively and continued throughout the intraoperative and postoperative periods (Joshi, Schug, & Kehlet, 2014). Consistent with this strategy are the goals of immediate postoperative pain reduction and prevention of postsurgical pain syndromes (Pasero, 2011). In addition, the initiation of multimodal analgesic interventions preoperatively or as soon as possible postoperatively facilitates the administration of the lowest effective analgesic doses during the critical immediate postoperative period when patients are likely to experience both excessive sedation from anesthetics and other drugs and severe pain (Pasero, Quinn, Portenoy, McCaffery, & Rizos, 2011).