Review of Predictors of Postoperative Pain

Arthur Paredes Gatti

Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil

^*Correspondance to: Arthur Paredes Gatti 

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Abstract:

Introduction: Pain in the postoperative period reported by the patient (acute or chronic) is an important aspect that must be taken into consideration and widely studied, since it interferes in the patient's acceptance by this method of treatment, prognosis, quality of life, besides being a descriptor of the quality of the service in which the surgery was performed and of the professionals involved. Currently, the patient takes into consideration not only the treatment itself of his illness, but how this will impact his life after the procedure.
Materials and Methods: A review was conducted in the literature in order to describe the main predictors of postoperative pain and its importance. Fifty studies were analyzed between 2002 and 2018, whose objective was to evaluate the impact of postoperative pain on the patient's quality of life. Results and
Discussion: Different types of scores were shown to be used as a predictor of postoperative pain. The psychological and emotional changes, followed by the demographic differences were the most important aspects found in the preoperative period that can measure the risk for postoperative pain.
Conclusion: The perception of quality of life changes according to the study group analyzed in relation to the referred disease and the cultural and social environment in which the individual is inserted, making the analysis often subjective, but as fundamental for the relationship between patient and multi professional team with better outcome treatment.

Keywords:

Predictors; Postoperative; Pain

Cite the Article:

Gatti AP. Review of Predictors of Postoperative Pain. World J Surg Surgical Res. 2018; 1: 1048.