• Ellen Veef and Marc Van de Velde.
• Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, KULeuven and Department of Anaesthesiology, UZLeuven, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
• Best Pract Res Clin Anaesthesiol. 2022 May 1; 36 (1): 83-88.

AbstractWorldwide, the most performed surgical intervention is cesarean section. Hence, post-cesarean pain is a common problem with significant health and economic impact on the individual patient and society. Adequate treatment of post-cesarean pain is necessary to facilitate enhanced recovery, improve neonatal outcome by improving breastfeeding success and bonding between mother and child, and reduce pain-induced side effects. Therefore, optimal pain relief is important, but in the obstetric population, this is often complex due to the interplay of mother and neonate. To facilitate recovery and temper the side effects of potent analgesic drugs such as opioids, multimodal analgesia is currently advocated, and clear international guidelines and recommendations have recently been described. In the present overview, we will discuss the most recent guidelines and evaluate various analgesic interventions.Copyright © 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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