Systemic Adjunct Analgesics for Cesarean Delivery:A Narrative Review

Post-operative pain arises both from direct tissue injury caused by an operation and the inflammation that surrounds the healing process afterwards.1 Because the pain itself has multiple facets, the treatment should be multimodal. Pain after cesarean delivery (CD) is often reported as worse than after vaginal delivery but it is quite variable.2 While neuraxial opioids have consistently been shown to be superior to other routes of opioid administration when treating post CD pain, many patients still require more pharmacologic pain relief3 and reducing or eliminating opioid use should also be a goal.

Source: International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia - July 3, 2019 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: J. Hamburger, Y. Beilin Tags: Review article Source Type: research