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Postoperative Care and Pain Management

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Abstract

Despite advances in anesthesia care and surgical techniques, major surgery is still prone to undesirable consequences [6] such as:

  • infection

  • thromboembolic complications

  • cardiorespiratory morbidity

  • cerebral dysfunction

  • postoperative nausea and vomiting

  • gastrointestinal paralysis

  • pain

  • fatigue

  • prolonged convalescence

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  1. Anästhesie, Universitätsklinik Balgrist, Forchstr. 340, 808, Zürich, Schweiz

    Stephan Blumenthal & Alain Borgeat

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  1. Zentrum für Wirbelsäulen- und Rückenmarkchirurgie, Universität Zürich Universitätsklinik Balgrist, Forchstraße 340, 8008, Zürich, Switzerland

    Norbert Boos

  2. Institut für Evaluative Forschung in Orthopädischer Chirurgie MEM Forschungszentrum, Universität Bern, Stauffacherstraße 78, 3014, Bern, Switzerland

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Blumenthal, S., Borgeat, A. (2008). Postoperative Care and Pain Management. In: Boos, N., Aebi, M. (eds) Spinal Disorders. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69091-7_16

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