[Post surgical pain: pathophysiological and therapeutic approaches]

Dakar Med. 2007;52(3):153-9.
[Article in French]

Abstract

Post surgical pain is a histonic reality. At the beginning of eighteen century (18th), morphine was used for the first time in analgesic aim. Post surgical pain is a reality for which takes care of it. The impact of pain pain post surgical in Europe is between 31 to 75% as for pain softened instinct, any type of mergened surgery. In Africa, the taking care of post surgical pain is not still well codified. To take care of it better, is needed a valvation of its intensity, analgesic means and a goad strategy.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Analgesics / therapeutic use*
  • Humans
  • Pain, Postoperative / complications
  • Pain, Postoperative / drug therapy*
  • Pain, Postoperative / physiopathology*

Substances

  • Analgesics