Using postoperative pain trajectories to define the role of regional analgesia in personalised pain medicine

E R Mariano^{1

2}, K El-Boghdadly^{3

4}, B M Ilfeld^{5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Peri-operative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
² Anesthesiology and Peri-operative Care Service, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
³ Department of Anaesthesia, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
⁴ King's College London, UK.
⁵ In Residence, Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.
⁶ Outcomes Research Consortium, Cleveland, OH, USA.

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E R Mariano et al. Anaesthesia. 2021 Feb.

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. 2021 Feb;76(2):165-169.

doi: 10.1111/anae.15067. Epub 2020 May 5.

E R Mariano^{1

2}, K El-Boghdadly^{3

4}, B M Ilfeld^{5

6}

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Peri-operative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
² Anesthesiology and Peri-operative Care Service, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
³ Department of Anaesthesia, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
⁴ King's College London, UK.
⁵ In Residence, Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.
⁶ Outcomes Research Consortium, Cleveland, OH, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: acute pain; nerve block; postoperative pain; regional anaesthesia; surgery; trajectory.

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