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Post-operative Pain Therapy

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“An unpleasant sensorial and emotional experience, associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage”. This definition by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) summarises clearly the multi-dimensional aspect of pain: a discriminative sensorial experience always associated with an adverse emotional connotation, “intrinsically unpleasant” occasionally all-absorbing and incoercible.

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We thank Mr Barry Mark Wheaton for his invaluable linguistic assistance with this work.

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  1. Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche “M. Aresu”, Università di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

    Gabriele Finco MD

  2. Cattedra di Anestesia, Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche “M. Aresu”, Università di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

    Gian Nicola Aru MD

  3. Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche “M. Aresu”, Ricercatore Universitario di Anestesiologia, Università di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

    Mario Musu MD

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    Nicolò Scuderi

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Finco, G., Aru, G.N., Musu, M. (2016). Post-operative Pain Therapy. In: Scuderi, N., Toth, B. (eds) International Textbook of Aesthetic Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46599-8_8

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