Pain Management Discussion Forum: Prevention of Chronic Postoperative Pain

ABSTRACT

A case of a 35-year-old woman scheduled for removal of a painful breast tumor is discussed. Ways to reduce risk of chronic pain developing postoperatively are described. Preoperative medications, nerve blocks, local anesthetics, and postoperative epidural pharmacotherapy are described.

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KEYWORDS :

• anesthetic
• chronic
• dexamethasone
• dextromethadone
• epidural
• ketamine
• local
• pain
• postoperative
• pregabalin
• prevention