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Acute Perioperative Pain: Mechanisms and Management

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Tissue trauma, including from acute trauma, acute surgical pathology, and surgical intervention, typically results in pain as a natural consequence. With an improved understanding of pain genesis, pathways, and pharmacology, much of the pain from surgery can be can usually be minimized or alleviated with adequate planning, consideration, and utilization of a multimodality approach. The aim of this chapter is to explain the principles of acute and chronic pain in the perioperative period and to assist with a better understanding for more effective pain control in surgical practice.

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The authors would like to thank the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists and Dr. Pam Macintyre, Director, Acute Pain Service Royal Adelaide Hospital, for the invaluable resources they have provided to the public and medical community.

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    Michael J. Cousins MBBS, MD, DSc, FAChPM (RACP)

  2. Pain Management Research Institute, Royal North Shore Hospital, University of Sydney, St Leonards, NSW, Australia

    Johann Emmanuel MBBS, FRAC, FFPMANZCA, FFPMRCA

  3. Royal Adelaide Hospital, University of Adelaide, L5 Eleanor Harrald Building, North Terrace, 5000, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Brendon J. Coventry BMBS, PhD, FRACS, FACS, FRSM

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Cousins, M.J., Emmanuel, J., Coventry, B.J. (2014). Acute Perioperative Pain: Mechanisms and Management. In: Coventry, B. (eds) General Surgery Risk Reduction. Surgery: Complications, Risks and Consequences. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5391-7_7

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