Abstract
Surgery is almost invariably associated with pain and very few patients do not require post-operative analgesia. It is difficult to provide consistently effective post-operative pain relief while avoiding side-effects. Although standards are rapidly rising, the failure to provide comprehensive post-operative pain relief to all patients has been rightly criticised as one of modern medicine’s greatest failings.
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Eltringham, R.J., Durkin, M., Casey, W.F. (1998). Pain Relief and Local Anaesthesia. In: Post-Operative Recovery and Pain Relief. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0899-3_3
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