Treatment of acute postoperative pain in patients undergoing open abdominal aortic repair (current state of the problem)
- Authors: Kozhanova A.V.1, Plotnikov G.P.1
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Affiliations:
- National Medical Research Center for Surgery. A.V. Vishnevsky
- Issue: Vol 16, No 1 (2022)
- Pages: 45-58
- Section: Reviews
- URL: https://rjraap.com/1993-6508/article/view/106746
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17816/RA106746
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Abstract
The epidemiology of acute postoperative pain and complications associated with inadequately controlled acute postoperative pain syndrome were considered. The paper presents treatments for acute postoperative pain, the clinical value of multimodal analgesia in enhanced recovery, and reduction of mortality in patients undergoing open abdominal aortic repair. The problem associated with the limitations of the methods in postoperative pain management after open surgical abdominal aortic repair is also considered. The paper also presents alternative methods of multimodal analgesia in patients undergoing other abdominal surgery. The choice of the optimal method in postoperative pain management under the enhanced recovery protocol after open surgical abdominal aortic repair is now significantly limited, as a comparative analysis of alternative methods of analgesia and epidural analgesia in vascular surgery was not conducted. Multicenter studies on multimodal analgesia in postoperative pain management under the enhanced recovery protocol after open surgical abdominal aortic repair are therefore required when deviating from the standard protocol.
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Anzhelika V. Kozhanova
National Medical Research Center for Surgery. A.V. Vishnevsky
Email: K.a.b87@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0607-6570
SPIN-code: 3138-6590
anesthesiologist-resuscitator
Russian Federation, 27, st. Bolshaya Serpukhovskaya, Moscow, 117997Georgy P. Plotnikov
National Medical Research Center for Surgery. A.V. Vishnevsky
Author for correspondence.
Email: georgpp@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4291-3380
MD, Dr. Sci. (Med.)
Russian Federation, 27, st. Bolshaya Serpukhovskaya, Moscow, 117997References
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