Preoperative optimization of the chronic pain patient: enhanced recovery before surgery

Abstract

This book is a combination of pain medicine and psychology. It targets optimising the chronic pain before surgery to prevent the development of chronic post-surgical pain and to prevent the flair of acute on chronic pain episodes. The book has 11 chapters. First chapter describes the scope of the problem, the economic burden and related complications. There is an overview of consequences of pain chronification and opioid use. Multiple papers are cited with detailed results on pre-op and post-op problems of opioids with effects on length of stay and success rates of surgery