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The majority of postoperative pain is nociceptive in character. Evidence suggests that women experience more pain after surgery than men and therefore require more morphine to achieve a similar level of pain relief.

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Acute Pain Management

  1. Acute Pain Defined
  2. Anatomy of Acute Pain
  3. Pain Processing
  4. Chemical Mediators of Transduction and Transmission
  5. The Surgical Stress Response
  6. Preemptive Analgesia
  7. Strategies for Acute Pain Management
  8. Assessment of Acute Pain
  9. Opioid Analgesics
  10. Nonopioid Analgesic Adjuncts
  11. Methods of Analgesia
  12. Continuous Peripheral Nerve Blockade Caveats
  13. Complications from Regional Anesthesia
  14. Perioperative Pain Management of Opioid-Dependent Patients
  15. Organization of Perioperative Pain Management Services
  16. Special Considerations in the Perioperative Pain Management of Children