Home / Publications / Pain Research Forum / Papers of the Week / Audit of pain management following emergency laparotomies in cancer patients: A prospective observational study from an Indian tertiary care hospital.
Emergency laparotomies present a challenge in pain management given sick patients, odd timings and poor outcomes. Current recommendations favour multimodal opioid-sparing analgesia following elective laparotomies. No recommendation exists for emergency surgeries.
