Perioperative analgesia continues to present challenges, the foremost being the wide variability and uncertainty in the response patients have to analgesics, according to a presentation at the 2024 annual meeting of the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society.
“As anesthesiologists, we are so used to having a predictable response,” said Harsha Shanthanna, MD, PhD, a professor of anesthesia at McMaster University, in Hamilton, Ontario. “But the nature of perioperative pain is