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The postoperative period is a crucial time for patients. Careful monitoring, integrated with a treatment plan that takes into account the basal pathologies and postoperative peculiarities of specific interventions (surgical site, blood losses, pain intensity, hospitalization duration), is able to reduce the complications and, thus, postoperative morbidity and hospital stay. Recent guidelines on perioperative treatment emphasize the role of simultaneous therapeutic measures, ensuring safe risk-management pathways such as prevention of surgical site infections, thromboembolic prophylaxis, strategies to reduce the incidence of perioperative stroke, and strategies to ensure enhanced techniques integrating postoperative analgesia, nausea and vomiting control, early mobilization, and enteral nutrition [1, 2]. The main integrated recommendations below are derived from the guidelines on the treatment of postoperative pain, characterized by levels of evidence A and B [3–7].
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Savoia, G., Loreto, M. (2015). Management Strategies in the Postoperative Course, with Particular Attention to Pain Treatment: Revision of the Most Recent Knowledge. In: Chiumello, D. (eds) Practical Issues Updates in Anesthesia and Intensive Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18066-3_7
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