Acute Perioperative Pain Management Among Adult Patients Undergoing Orthopaedic Surgery

Abstract

Patients undergoing elective orthopaedic surgery may experience pain that is acute, chronic, or a combination of the two, with less than half of all surgical patients reporting adequate pain relief (Chou et al., 2016). Unrelieved acute pain can result in many adverse sequelae including delayed healing, increased morbidity, pulmonary complications, limited rehabilitation participation, anxiety, depression, increased length of stay, prolonged duration of opioid use, and the development of chronic pain (Glare et al., 2019;Quinlan-Colwell, 2020).

Collaboration ... Nurses Working Together

“…An example of organizations working together can be found in this issue of Orthopaedic Nursing. NAON in conjunction with the American Society for Pain Management Nurses (ASPMN) worked together to develop the combined position statement, “Acute Perioperative Pain Management Among Adult Patients Undergoing Orthopaedic Surgery” (Arkin et al, 2022, p. 71). The two organizations worked together to help nurses understand their role in the management of postoperative pain in patients undergoing orthopaedic surgical procedures.…”