Pain After Surgery
The 2017 IASP Global Year Against Pain After Surgery had several purposes:
- Disseminate information worldwide about pain after surgery
- Educate pain researchers as well as health-care professionals who see the issues associated with such pain first-hand in their interactions with patients
- Increase awareness of postsurgical pain among public officials, members of the media, and the general public
- Encourage government leaders, health-care organizations, and others to support policies that result in improved management of pain after surgery
Resources
- Find out what happened at the AP SIG symposium held during the EFIC congress in September 2017
- Read what IASP chapters and other organizations had to say about the Global Year Against Pain After Surgery
- Collected articles from PAIN on pain after surgery
- Articles in PAIN Reports and issues of Pain: Clinical Updates related to postsurgical pain
- Chronic Pain After Surgery or Injury (2011)
- Are perioperative opioids obsolete? Proceedings of an IASP Acute Pain Special Interest Group Satellite Symposium September 25, 2016 Yokohama, Japan (2017)
- Persistent postsurgical pain in children and young people: prediction, prevention, and management (2017)
- Women report higher pain intensity at a lower level of inflammation after knee surgery compared with men (2017)
- Postoperative pain—from mechanisms to treatment (2017)
- Effects of local and spinal administrations of mu-opioids on postoperative pain in aged vs adult mice (2017)
- FAQs on the Global Year
- View 2017 Global Year events that were held around the world
Fact Sheets on Pain After Surgery
Below are 14 Fact Sheets prepared by the world's top experts on various aspects of postsurgical pain. IASP thanks the scientists and clinicians who wrote and reviewed the Fact Sheets and members of the SIG on Acute Pain for their valuable contributions. The documents, edited by task force chairs Daniel B. Carr and Bart Morlion, are free to download.
- What the Public Should Know About Pain After Surgery
- What Health-Care Professionals Should Know About Pain After Surgery
- Pathophysiology of Acute Postoperative Pain
- Chronic Postsurgical Pain: Definition and Impact
- Management of Postsurgical Pain in Adults: Pharmacotherapy and Regional Anesthesia
- Behavioral Techniques including Hypnosis for Pain After Surgery
- Management of Postsurgical Pain in Children
- Management of Postsurgical Pain in Older Adults
- Management of Postsurgical Pain in Patients Treated Preoperatively with Opioids
- Management of Pain Related to Surgery and Procedures in Patients with Known or Suspected Cancer
- Pain Management in Critical Care
- Acupuncture for Acute Pain and Nausea After Surgery
- Management of Patients First Presenting with Chronic Pain After Surgery
- Using Outcomes to Improve Care: Real-Time, Short-Term, and Long-Term
Global Year Task Force
Daniel B. Carr (USA), MD, DABPM, FFPMANZCA (Hon), Chair of IASP Special Interest Group on Acute Pain, Co-Chair
Bart Morlion (Belgium), MD, PhD, DESA, President-elect, European Pain Federation, EFIC, Co-Chair
Robert I. Cohen (USA) , MD
Patricia Lavand'homme (Belgium), MD, PhD
Winfried Meissner (Germany), MD
Esther Pogatzky-Zahn (Germany), Prof. Dr.med
Stephan Schug (Australia), MD, FANZCA, FFPMANZCA
Audun Stubhaug (Norway), MD, PhD
Chris Wells (UK), MB, ChB, LRCP, MRCS, LMCC, FRCA, FIPP