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An acute pain team(APT) is organized in a hospital to prevent and treat acute pain after surgery, trauma, acute pain caused by other medical conditions, and labor pain. APT can improve pain relief for patients at high risk of severe acute pain, e.g., after extensive surgery, in patients on chronic opioid-therapy, patients with medical co-morbidities that increase their risk of analgesia-related complications or side effects. Children and elderly patients often need special focus on effective and safe pain relief. An APT is based in a department of anesthesiology, the pain clinic of the hospital, or one of the clinical departments that has patients with acute pain problems. For optimal management of acute postoperative pain, an APT is necessary for continuously ongoing education of ward nurses, doctors, and patients for implementing advanced pain-relieving methods, for effective and safe pain relief in high risk, young and old patients, for audit, and for continuous quality...
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Breivik, H., Sørensen, K., Stubhaug, A. (2013). Postoperative Pain, Acute Pain Team. In: Gebhart, G.F., Schmidt, R.F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Pain. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28753-4_3424
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