Acute Pain Management
substantially to morbidity, mortality, disability, and
health care system burdens. Acute pain has been defined as "the physiologic response and experience to noxious stimuli that can become pathologic, is normally sudden in onset, time limited, and motivates behaviors to avoid actual or potential tissue injuries”. Acute pain usually lasts for less than 7 days but often extends up to 30 days; for some conditions, acute pain episodes may recur periodically. In some patients, acute pain persists to become chronic. Acute pain is ubiquitous following surgery. Pain is the most common reason for emergency department visits and is commonly encountered in primary care, other outpatient, and inpatient settings. The key decisional dilemma in acute
pain management involves selection of interventions to provide adequate pain relief, in order to improve quality of life, improve function, and facilitate recovery, while minimizing adverse effects and avoiding overprescribing of opioids.
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