Revista española de anestesiología y reanimación
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Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim · Aug 2006
[Postoperative pain management in a tertiary care hospital: initial situation prior to starting a quality assurance program].
To characterize the initial situation in postoperative pain management among the services General and Vascular surgery as the first step in developing a program to improve postoperative analgesia. ⋯ Postoperative pain is an area in which improvements can be implemented to provide better care and treatment of surgical patients, particularly since there are efficacious analgesic treatments for pain control that are presently not being used. The custom of prescribing pain medication on demand should be avoided in all surgical procedures that are known to produce postoperative pain.