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Surgical Pain

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Surgical pain is a very complicated subject as it arises from both tissue damage and nerve injury. The proper management of surgical pain is crucial not only for better outcomes in the perioperative period, but for long-term benefit by reducing chronic postsurgical pain (CPSP) with its dire effects on patient’s outcomes. Aggressive multimodal analgesic treatment could be helpful to minimize the risks of development of CPSP in addition to the prevention of nerve and tissue damage during surgery.

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  1. Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Departments of General Anesthesia and Outcomes Research, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Ehab Farag MD, FRCA

  2. Anesthesiology Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Maria Yared MD

  3. General Anesthesia and Pain Management, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Wael Ali Sakr Esa MD, PhD

  4. Department of General Anesthesia, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Michael Ritchey MD

  5. General Anesthesia and Critical Care & Comprehensive Pain Management, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Loran Mounir Soliman MD

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Correspondence to Ehab Farag MD, FRCA .

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  1. Professor of Anesthesiology President-elect, American Academy of Pain Medicine, Director, Cleveland Clinic Multidisciplinary Pain Medicine Fellowship Program, Departments of Pain Management and Neurosciences, Cleveland Clinic Anesthesiology Institute and Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

    Jianguo Cheng

  2. Chairman, Department Pain Management, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

    Richard W. Rosenquist

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Farag, E., Yared, M., Esa, W.A.S., Ritchey, M., Soliman, L.M. (2018). Surgical Pain. In: Cheng, J., Rosenquist, R. (eds) Fundamentals of Pain Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64922-1_13

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