Pain Management Following Abdominal Hysterectomy: Novel Approaches and Review of the Literature

Abstract

Abdominal hysterectomy (AH) is one of the most common surgeries performed for malignant as well as benign indications. Effective pain management depends on the cooperation between the surgeons, anesthetists and the hospital’s pain management service, and is a combination of preemptive analgesia, general and regional anesthesia, peripheral blocks and multimodal postoperative pain treatment. The objective of this work is to present the currently available therapeutic strategies for the treatment of posthysterectomy pain in the light of our experience and the literature review.




doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4021/jcgo130w