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Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie

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01-02-2014 | Editorials

Why anesthesiologists need to care about the way chronic pain is managed

Authors: Alexander J. Clark, MD, Christopher C. Spanswick, MBChB

Published in: Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie | Issue 2/2014

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Anesthesiologists are now frequently considered specialists in perioperative medicine. This view reflects changes in practice that have evolved over the last 20 years and are currently exemplified in many departments, including those specializing in pain medicine, pain management, and perioperative medicine. Postoperatively, many patients continue to receive inadequate analgesia, and poor pain control is the leading cause of post-discharge visits to the emergency room and early re-admission to hospital after surgery.1 Patients with preoperative chronic pain, especially those receiving opioids, have a high rate of unsatisfactory perioperative pain control.2 …

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Title: Why anesthesiologists need to care about the way chronic pain is managed
Authors: Alexander J. Clark, MD
Christopher C. Spanswick, MBChB
Publication date: 01-02-2014
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie / Issue 2/2014
Print ISSN: 0832-610X
Electronic ISSN: 1496-8975
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12630-013-0066-9

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