Acute postoperative pain management is based on a multimodal approach including opioids, adjunct medications, and local anesthetics. Challenges to management include patients with previous history of opioid tolerance and side effects of medications in the setting of physiologic changes seen postoperatively.
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Kooner, P., & Peperzak, K. (2019). Acute Pain Management. In The Perioperative Medicine Consult Handbook: Third Edition (pp. 439–446). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19704-9_56
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