Longitudinal Perioperative Pain Assessment in Head and Neck Cancer Surgery.

CONCLUSION: Longitudinal perioperative pain assessment in head and neck patients undergoing surgery suggests that patients with worse preoperative pain continue to endorse worse pain postoperatively and require more narcotics. Patients with preoperative neuropathic pain also report poor pain control postoperatively, suggesting an opportunity to identify these patients and intervene with empiric neuropathic pain treatment. PMID: 28770621 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: The Annals of Otology, Rhinology, and Laryngology - August 1, 2017 Category: ENT & OMF Authors: Buchakjian MR, Davis AB, Sciegienka SJ, Pagedar NA, Sperry SM Tags: Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol Source Type: research