Population
250 adult patients undergoing laparotomy surgery from General Surgery and Obstetrics and Gynaecology at a…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
3 days
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Severe pain affects one-third of laparotomy patients on day 1 despite analgesics; leaves open optimized multimodal protocols for prospective trials.
Despite the use of opioids and combination analgesics, one third of adult patients undergoing laparotomy experience severe pain on the first post-operative day.
Toro et al. (2018) studied this question.
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