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Patients with chronic pain are at risk for difficult to control postoperative pain. Preoperative evaluation with an emphasis on expectation management is key. In addition, a multimodal approach should be used throughout the patient’s perioperative course including opioid and non-opioid systemic pharmacotherapy, procedural interventions such as local infiltration, peripheral nerve block, and neuraxial blockade, as well as cognitive and physical nonpharmacologic modalities.
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Dr. Christina Bockman, PharmD, Pharmacist, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington
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Peperzak, K., Kooner, P. (2020). Chronic Pain. In: Jackson, M., Huang, R., Kaplan, E., Mookherjee, S. (eds) The Perioperative Medicine Consult Handbook. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19704-9_47
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