Сontemporary aspects of postoperative analgesia (review)

Abstract

In this review of the literature on modern drugs and techniques to ensure multicomponent analgesia in surgical wards is presents. The technique of pre-emptive analgesia, which reduces the intensity of postoperative pain and contributes to the prevention of chronic postoperative pain. Clear instructions on the use of pharmacological agents (non-steroidal inflammatory drugs, gabapentin, ketamine) and preventive epidural anaesthesia are given. The characteristic of narcotic and non-narcotic analgesics are available for use after surgery and alsonefopam, flupirtine and gabapentine. The results of the application of the prolonged epidural analgesia using microinfusion elastomeric pumps are presents.