Perioperative Pain Management: Present outlook

Abdul Qayoom Lone,Javaid A Zargar

doi:10.33883/jms.v14i1.61

Abstract

The individuals rights in the United States, and the rise of democratic states, has created an environment in which individual pursuit of better health care, including pain relief, became explicit goals in the civilized world. The 'right to pain relief' has now multidimensional foundations in the developed world. Knowingly, acute pain is a universal phenomenon. All emergency and elective surgery, severe medical illness, trauma, childbirth, burns, natural calamities, war and torture, all contribute to its burden. In many countries political conflict, social dislocation, and inadequate availability of analgesics conspire to make the relief of acute pain sporadic at best. Effective and efficient pain control, however, is an ethical responsibility and moral obligation of a caring physician, whether working in the developed or developing world . JMS 2011;14(1):1-3

Highlights

The individuals rights in the United States, and the rise of democratic states, has created an environment in which individual pursuit of better health care, including pain relief, became explicit goals in the civilized world.[1]
There should be objective analysis of the post operative pain control techniques and patient's right to remain pain free should not be compromised at any cost
The recent systematic review of the pain literature by Liu and Wu examined the effect of the postoperative analgesic techniques on the incidence of complications after surgery

Summary

Introduction

The individuals rights in the United States, and the rise of democratic states, has created an environment in which individual pursuit of better health care, including pain relief, became explicit goals in the civilized world.[1]. Perioperative pain management commences from the preoperative assessment period and continues as adequate pain control during surgery and a well planed post operative pain control, both during early postoperative phase and in convalescence period, using appropriate analgesic techniques, customized and rationalized for every individual patient.

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