Acute pain

Abstract

Over the last decade, a strong nociceptive somatic and visceral acute pain has been considered as the most important factor in the development of endocrine and metabolic disorders in postoperative and posttraumatic periods or in other painful clinical situations. A better knowledge and understanding of the acute pain neurophysiology and fast pathogenic mechanisms which lead to pain chronification require aggressive pain analgesic strategies. Acute pain is a normal, physiological response to a noxious stimulus and it has a protective function. The aim of treatment is to achieve a complete pain relief with multimodal preventive analgesic techniques. This paper provides an update on pharmacotherapy recommendations, emphasizes the advantages of regional analgesic techniques and discusses the acute pain treatment in special clinical situations.