ACUTE PAIN LEADERSHIP
- Chair 2024 - 2026:
Rianne Van Boekel
The Netherlands
- Past Chair 2024 - 2026:
Ester M. Pogatzki-Zahn
Germany - Treasurer 2024 - 2026:
Ester M. Pogatzki-Zahn
Germany - Secretary 2024 - 2026:
Felicia Cox
UK
CONTACT ACUTE PAIN
What is Acute Pain?
Acute pain happens suddenly, starts out sharp or intense, and serves as a warning sign of disease or threat to the body. It is caused by injury, surgery, illness, trauma, or painful medical procedures and generally lasts from a few minutes to less than six months. Acute pain usually disappears whenever the underlying cause is treated or healed.
Acute Pain SIG Mission and Vision
The Acute Pain SIG advances and promotes the understanding of mechanisms, assessment, prevention, and management of acute pain through the following:
- Collaboration between basic and clinical research.
- Study of the underlying mechanisms of acute pain, including the transition from acute to chronic pain, and the implications of acute pain therapy for clinical outcome and quality of life.
- Exchange of guideline developments, methodology, and implementation strategies.
- Exchange of information and experience about the assessment and treatment of acute pain, both within IASP and in exchanges with other national and international NGOs such as the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists.
- Identification and implementation of programs to minimize the development of acute pain and related suffering.
- Furthering the educational objectives of the SIG via international meetings, an annual symposium, workshops at IASP World Congresses, Congress satellite meetings, a newsletter, and the IASP website.
Taskforce for the Development of a Position Statement on Appropriate Extended-Release Opioid Use for Acute Postoperative Pain
The purpose of this IASP Acute Pain Special Interest Group (SIG) Taskforce is to coordinate and develop a position statement on appropriate extended-release opioid use for acute postoperative pain.
Taskforce Aims
- To gather relevant expertise and evidence to inform the development of a position statement on extended-release opioid use in acute pain.
- To engage in productive discussion and achieve consensus on recommendations made within the position statement on extended-release opioid use in acute pain.
- To maintain the scope and timeline of the position statement as described in the Terms of Reference.
Acute Pain Recordings:
Acute Pain Annual General Meeting
Prevention of Pain After Surgery Webinar
Acute Pain Resources:
- Assessing outcome in postoperative pain trials: are we missing the point? A systematic review of pain-related outcome domains reported in studies early after total knee arthroplasty.
Bigalke S, Maeßen TV, Schnabel K, Kaiser U, Segelcke D, Meyer-Frießem CH, Liedgens H, Macháček PA, Zahn PK, Pogatzki-Zahn EM Pain. 2021 Jul 1;162(7):1914-1934 - The IASP classification of chronic pain for ICD-11: chronic postsurgical or posttraumatic pain
Schug SA, Lavand'homme P, Barke A, Korwisi B, Rief W, Treede RD; IASP Taskforce for the Classification of Chronic Pain Pain. 2019 Jan;160(1):45-52 - An international multidisciplinary consensus statement on the prevention of opioid‐related harm in adult surgical patients
Levy N, Quinlan J, El‐Boghdadly K, Fawcett WJ, Agarwal V, Bastable RB, Cox FJ, de Boer HD, Dowdy SC, Hattingh K, Knaggs RD, Mariano ER, Pelosi P, Scott MJ, Lobo DN, Macintyre PE Anaesthesia, 76: 520-536 - The use of intravenous lidocaine for postoperative pain and recovery: international consensus statement on efficacy and safety
Foo I, Macfarlane AJR, Srivastava D, Bhaskar A, Barker H, Knaggs R, Eipe N, Smith AF Anaesthesia, 76: 238-250 - 2023 Global Year for Integrative Pain Care
- 2022 Global Year for Translating Pain Knowlege into Practice
- 2020 Global Year for the Prevention of Pain
- 2016 Global Year Against Joint Pain
- 2017 Global Year Against Pain After Surgery
- 2012 Global Year Against Headache
- 2011 Global Year Against Acute Pain
- IASP's Topic Page on Acute Pain