There are four factors that clinicians can use to predict a patient’s risk for experiencing severe postoperative pain in the PACU, a new study suggests.
Poor pain management in the immediate postoperative period can delay patient discharge, increase hospital costs and lower overall patient satisfaction. A team of researchers from Yale School of Medicine, in New Haven, Conn., led by Susan Dabu-Bondoc, MD, assistant professor of anesthesiology, analyzed data from