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Postoperative Pain Management in Patients After Neurosurgical Operations

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Abstract

Management of pain in neurosurgical patients can be challenging.

Effective post-operative pain management starts in the preoperative phase including planning, education, pre-emptive analgesia, and multimodal analgesia to optimize pain management. Use of stronger medication and opioids must be monitored, and down-titration was considered at the earliest opportunity.

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  1. The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK

    Mary Newton

  2. Department of Anaesthetics and Pain Medicine, Royal National Orthopedic Hospital, London, UK

    Tacson Fernandez

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

    Ansgar M. Brambrink

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA

    Jeffrey R. Kirsch

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Newton, M., Fernandez, T. (2020). Postoperative Pain Management in Patients After Neurosurgical Operations. In: Brambrink, A., Kirsch, J. (eds) Essentials of Neurosurgical Anesthesia & Critical Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17410-1_81

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