Frédéric Aubrun, Karine Nouette-Gaulain, Dominique Fletcher, Anissa Belbachir, Hélène Beloeil, Michel Carles, Philippe Cuvillon, Christophe Dadure, Gilles Lebuffe, Emmanuel Marret, Valeria Martinez, Michel Olivier, Nada Sabourdin, Paul Zetlaoui
The French Society of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine (SFAR) published experts' guidelines on the care of postoperative pain. This was an update of the 2008 guidelines. Fourteen experts analysed the literature (PubMed™, Cochrane™) on questions that had not been treated in the previous guidelines, or to modify the guidelines following new data in the published literature. The used method is invariably the GRADE© method, which guarantees a rigorous work. Seventeen recommendations were formalised on the assessment of perioperative pain, and most particularly in non-communicating patients, on opioid and non-opioid analgesics and on anti-hyperalgesic drugs, such as ketamine and gabapentinoids, as well as on local and regional anaesthesia...
August 2019: Anaesthesia, Critical Care & Pain Medicine