Postoperative pain management in urology

Abstract

Pain is the most complaint symptom of patients in post-operative period. Main causes of post-operative pain are tissue damage, drenaige apparatus and surgical complications due to surgery. Inadequate post-operative pain management may cause increase in morbidity, mortality, hospitalization stay, respiratory and tromboembolic complications, risk of developing chronic pain and decrease in quality of life. Pain management is synonymous with patient comfort. Therefore, clinicians responsible for the treatment of pain management should have sufficient knowledge and experience.

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