Postoperative Pain Treatment in Patients with Dementia: A Retrospective Observational Study.
Nobuo SakataYasuyuki OkumuraAsao OgawaPublished in: Drugs & aging (2022)
The length of postoperative opioid administration after lung and rectal cancer surgery was reduced in patients with dementia, suggesting that the duration of postoperative analgesia in patients with dementia may be insufficient. More careful pain assessment and management of postoperative analgesia in these patients may be necessary.
Keyphrases
- postoperative pain
- pain management
- mild cognitive impairment
- patients undergoing
- chronic pain
- cognitive impairment
- rectal cancer
- end stage renal disease
- newly diagnosed
- ejection fraction
- minimally invasive
- chronic kidney disease
- prognostic factors
- peritoneal dialysis
- coronary artery bypass
- neuropathic pain
- spinal cord injury
- acute coronary syndrome
- atrial fibrillation
- patient reported
- smoking cessation
- clinical evaluation