About this Research Topic
Inadequate acute pain management after trauma delays return to work, often implying a lowers quality of life. Pain management changed over the last decade, and available strategies are different for unique settings as trauma and emergency surgery with the common aim to allow patients return to normal function.
The goal of this Research Topic is to bring together a collection of papers that summarize the available evidence on pain management in trauma and emergency surgery. The Topic will be focused on acute and chronic pain management in daily practice. Pre-operative, intra-operative and post-operative factors that could influence pain will be considered, with also an eye on new operative techniques of locoregional anaesthesia and new drugs.
We welcome the submission of manuscripts including, but not limited to, the following topics:
1. Acute pain management in trauma and emergency surgery
- Pre-hospital and in-hospital pain managing protocol in severe trauma patients.
- Other mechanisms related to acute pain control in patients underwent to emergency surgery
2. Locoregional anesthesia in thoracic and abdominal trauma
3. Nerve blockade in long bone fractures
4. Minimally invasive techniques for pain control in emergency surgery
5. Chronic pain management in trauma and emergency surgery
- In-hospital and postoperative pain managing protocols especially (but not exclusively) focus on new drugs in trauma patients
- Pain after major trauma and daily life disability
- Other mechanisms related to pain control in patients underwent to emergency surgery
Keywords: Trauma Surgery, Emergency Surgery, Pain management
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