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In this chapter, we discuss issues surrounding perioperative pain management. It involves everything from preoperative pain, to intraoperative pain, to postoperative pain. We discuss the subjective evaluation of pain in a variety of situations, and informed consent, as it relates to pain management. We discuss various strategies for management of intraoperative pain, including multimodal pain management techniques, regional anesthesia, and a variety of pharmaceutical modalities for controlling the pain response during an anesthetic. Finally, we discuss the management of postoperative pain, including opioid, non-opioid, and multimodal approaches to controlling patients’ pain.

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    Michael Franklin

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    J. Arthur Saus, Yury Rapoport & Nicholas Darensburg

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Franklin, M., Saus, J.A., Rapoport, Y., Darensburg, N. (2019). Pain Management. In: Fox, III, C., Cornett, E., Ghali, G. (eds) Catastrophic Perioperative Complications and Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96125-5_8

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