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New thinking about postoperative pain management OR Nurse: doi:
10.1097/01.ORN.0000406638.19178.07 Feature: CE Connection  New
thinking about postoperative pain management  D'Arcy, Yvonne MS,
CRNP, CNS  Free Access Continued Education Article Outline
Collapse Box  Author Information  Yvonne D'Arcy is a nurse
practitioner in pain management and palliative care at Suburban
Hospital-Johns Hopkins Medicine in Bethesda, Md.  Pain can
influence a patient's satisfaction with the surgical experience.
Follow these tips for good outcomes.  The author makes the
following disclosures: Consultant, Ortho-McNeil, Pfizer, Endo;
Speaker's Bureau, Endo, Pfizer. The planners have disclosed that
they have no financial relationships related to this article.
Despite advances in technology and medications, unrelieved
postoperative pain continues to be problematic for surgical
patients. Statistics indicate that about 43 million patients in
the United States experience