{"id":1364,"date":"2016-10-31T21:42:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T19:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2016-10-31T21:42:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T19:42:40","slug":"the-role-of-nsaids-in-multimodal-analgesia-for-post-operative-pain-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/?p=1364","title":{"rendered":"The Role of NSAIDs in Multimodal Analgesia for Post-operative Pain Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/DigitalEditions\/mm1610-october-2016\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Role of NSAIDs in Multimodal Analgesia for Post-operative Pain Relief \u2013 MM1610<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pain as defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage. Early and effective relief from pain in the post operative period is of increasing importance in order to improve patient comfort and to restore a patient\u2019s daily function as early as possible. Choice of analgesics in the post-operative period should be guided by an individual\u2019s needs.<\/p>\n<p>An important goal of postoperative pain relief is to provide subjective comfort,<br \/>\ninhibit trauma-induced afferent pain transmission and to blunt the autonomic<br \/>\nand somatic reflex responses to pain, leading to enhanced restoration of<br \/>\nfunction and enhancing recovery of the ability to breathe, cough and ambulate<br \/>\nwithout limitations.<\/p>\n<p>NSAIDs are increasingly being combined with opioids to reduce the incidence of opioid related adverse effects.<\/p>\n<p><em>Modern Medicine \u2013 October\u00a02016<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Role of NSAIDs in Multimodal Analgesia for Post-operative Pain Relief \u2013 MM1610 Pain as defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain is&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2},"beyondwords_generate_audio":"","beyondwords_project_id":"","beyondwords_content_id":"","beyondwords_preview_token":"","beyondwords_player_content":"","beyondwords_player_style":"","beyondwords_language_code":"","beyondwords_language_id":"","beyondwords_title_voice_id":"","beyondwords_body_voice_id":"","beyondwords_summary_voice_id":"","beyondwords_error_message":"","beyondwords_disabled":"","beyondwords_delete_content":"","beyondwords_podcast_id":"","beyondwords_hash":"","publish_post_to_speechkit":"","speechkit_hash":"","speechkit_generate_audio":"","speechkit_project_id":"","speechkit_podcast_id":"","speechkit_error_message":"","speechkit_disabled":"","speechkit_access_key":"","speechkit_error":"","speechkit_info":"","speechkit_response":"","speechkit_retries":"","speechkit_status":"","speechkit_updated_at":"","_speechkit_link":"","_speechkit_text":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pain"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5REYo-m0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1365,"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions\/1365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}