• Jodi-Ann Oliver, Lori-Ann Oliver, Nitish Aggarwal, Khushboo Baldev, Melanie Wood, Lovemore Makusha, Nalini Vadivelu, and Lance Lichtor.
• Department of Anesthesiology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA.
• Curr Pain Headache Rep. 2022 Jan 1; 26 (1): 15-23.

Purpose Of ReviewOutpatient surgery in the pediatric population has become increasingly common. However, many patients still experience moderate to severe postoperative pain. A poor understanding of the extent of pain after pediatric ambulatory surgery and the lack of randomized control studies of pain management of the outpatient necessitate this review of scientific evidence and multimodal analgesia.Recent FindingsA multimodal approach to pain management should be applied to the ambulatory setting to decrease postoperative pain. These include non-pharmacological techniques, multimodal pharmacologics, and neuraxial and peripheral nerve blocks. Postoperative pain management in pediatric ambulatory surgical patients remains suboptimal at most centers due to limited evidence-based approach to postoperative pain control. Pediatric ambulatory pain management requires a multipronged approach to address this inadequacy.© 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.

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