Perioperative Pain Management for Shoulder Surgery: Evolving Techniques

Improving management of postoperative pain following shoulder surgery is vital for optimizing patient outcomes, length of stay, and decreasing addiction to narcotic medications. Multimodal analgesia (i.e. controlling pain via multiple different analgesic methods with differing mechanisms) is an ever-evolving approach to enhancing pain control perioperatively after shoulder surgery. With a variety of options for the shoulder surgeon to turn to, this review will succinctly review the pros and cons of each approach and proposes a potential pain management algorithm.
Source: Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery - Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Tags: Review Article Source Type: research