Recovery and pain

The recovery unit, nausea and vomiting, postoperative pain, delirium, hypothermia and enhanced recovery (ERAS).

8 pages

• Chronic pain: an overview for the generalistChronic pain lasts more than three months; it changes the nervous system and daily life, so it…
• Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS)ERAS is a team plan of small proven steps before, during and after surgery that helps patients…
• Perioperative hypothermia and shiveringAnaesthesia switches off the body's defences against cold, so patients cool during surgery…
• Postoperative deliriumSome patients, especially older people, become confused and disoriented for days after surgery…
• Postoperative nausea and vomitingFeeling sick or vomiting after an operation is common; doctors can predict who is at risk and…
• Postoperative oliguria and fluidsLow urine after surgery may be a blocked catheter, a full bladder, too little fluid or kidney…
• Postoperative pain: multimodal analgesiaPain after surgery is best controlled by combining several medicines and techniques, so that…
• The recovery unit: monitoring and discharge criteriaAfter an operation, patients wake up in a recovery unit where nurses and doctors watch…

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Educational content; it does not replace supervised training, your institution's protocols or the anaesthetist's or intensivist's decision. It contains no doses and no ventilator or infusion settings.

Representative model, for educational purposes only.