Anaesthesia, critical care & pain medicine
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Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med · Jun 2015
One half of patients reports persistent pain three months after orthopaedic surgery.
To determine persistent post-surgical pain prevalence after orthopaedic surgery with its impact on patient quality of life and to assess factors related to it. ⋯ Chronic, post-surgical pain is common after orthopaedic surgery, leading to analgesic consumption and sleep disturbance. Patients at high risk for developing chronic post-surgical pain must be identified preoperatively. The development of postoperative pain clinics should be one way to respond to this public health problem.