Open AccessChronified Pain Following Operative Procedures
Author(s) -
D. Geil,
Charisma Rebecca Thomas,
Annette Zimmer,
Winfried Meißner
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
deutsches ärzteblatt international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.436
H-Index - 60
ISSN - 1866-0452
DOI - 10.3238/arztebl.2019.0261
Subject(s) - medicine , lidocaine , anesthesia , pain medicine , local anesthetic , perioperative , incidence (geometry) , anesthetic , surgery , anesthesiology , physics , optics
Over 18 million operative procedures are performed each year in Germany alone. Approximately 10% of surgical patients develop moderate to severe chronic post-surgical pain (CPSP), which can severely impair their quality of life. The pain must persist for at least three months to be called chronic; pain that arises after a symptom-free interval is not excluded. The perioperative use of local anesthetic agents may lessen the incidence of CPSP.