Assessment of post operative pain: A first step towards effective post operative pain management
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Acute pain after surgery is inevitable because of the associated trauma to many pain-sensitive structures. Role of pain is to provide alarming signal about tissue damage, but in case of the surgical incisions, such alarm is scarcely needed. Instead of being a useful tool, post operative pain can impair the hematologic, immune, hormonal, cardiac, and respiratory systems. Pain also limits mobility, interfere with sleep and rest, and contribute to agitation, psychosis, aggressive behaviour, and del...
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