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Treatment of Acute Pain in the Orthopedic Patient
A review of the mechanisms of acute pain and treatment strategies in orthopedic patients with special emphasis on pre-emptive analgesia. Acute pain after orthopedic surgery should be anticipated and its treatment should be a part of every anesthetic plan. Analgesic approaches have changed in recent years in part due to patient expectations, the shift toward ambulatory surgery, and shorter hospital stays. Further, analgesic options have increased with new drugs and modes of delivery.
Intraarticular Mechanisms for Pain Control
Postoperative pain control after surgery of the joint can be obtained through the use of intraarticular injection of local anesthetics and opioids. The observation that patients who had arthroscopic knee surgery under local anesthesia seem to have less postoperative pain than patients with comparable procedures performed under general anesthesia lead to investigations to explain this phenomenon.
Cardiovascular Consequences of Severe Acute Pain
Insufficiently-treated severe acute pain has been observed to have multifactorial, deleterious effects — direct and indirect — on the cardiovascular system. Acute nociceptive pain is a signal of tissue injury and perception is initially adaptive, causing an organism to take steps to decrease the tissue damage. In other words, the ability to sense pain is basically a protective mechanism.
The Multi-disciplinary Pain Medicine Fellowship
Will it change the practice of pain medicine? Up until about thirty years ago, chronic pain was a diagnosis without a specialist. Patients with disabling pain sought help from primary care physicians and specialists. Once the battery of diagnostic tests was exhausted, or after an exploratory surgical procedure, the pain persisted and the referral to another physician some-times was the only remaining action. Depression, suicide and drug addiction from doctor shopping were an all-to-common sequelae.
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