Measuring "pain load" during general anesthesia.

Stephen Green Keerthana Deepti Karunakaran Delany Berry Barry David Kussman Lyle Micheli David Borsook

Published in: Cerebral cortex communications (2022)

Our results show that standardizing and observing concentrations over 25 s using the ±0.3 mM threshold can be an arbiter of the continuous number of incisions performed on a patient, contributing to a potential intraoperative pain load index that correlates with post-operative levels of pain and potential pain chronification.

Keyphrases

chronic pain
pain management
neuropathic pain
spinal cord injury
climate change
risk assessment
postoperative pain
human health