Expert consensus on post-operative pain management in adults

Issued by: Chinese medical association

Post date: September 30, 2017

Brief introduction:

Pain is the unpleasant feeling and emotional experience caused by tissue damage or potential tissue damage, or painful experience with sensory, emotional, cognitive and social dimensions. according to the healing time of the injured tissue and the duration of the pain, pain can be divided into acute pain and chronic pain. The duration of acute pain is usually less than 1 month and is often associated with surgical trauma, tissue damage, or certain disease states. Chronic pain is pain that lasts for more than 3 months and may persist after the primary disease or tissue injury has healed.

Classification: postoperative pain