The Role of NSAIDs in Multimodal Analgesia for Post-operative Pain Relief – MM1610
Pain as defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage. Early and effective relief from pain in the post operative period is of increasing importance in order to improve patient comfort and to restore a patient’s daily function as early as possible. Choice of analgesics in the post-operative period should be guided by an individual’s needs.
An important goal of postoperative pain relief is to provide subjective comfort,
inhibit trauma-induced afferent pain transmission and to blunt the autonomic
and somatic reflex responses to pain, leading to enhanced restoration of
function and enhancing recovery of the ability to breathe, cough and ambulate
without limitations.
NSAIDs are increasingly being combined with opioids to reduce the incidence of opioid related adverse effects.
Modern Medicine – October 2016
