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Rebound pain: distinct pain phenomenon or nonentity?

2021; Elsevier BV; Volume: 126; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.bja.2020.12.034

1471-6771

Duncan Hamilton,

Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes

Ambulatory surgery is the new normal: over half of all surgery is carried out in an ambulatory (day-case) setting, and this number continues to grow.1–4 Ambulatory surgery is no longer restricted to minor surgery in young, healthy individuals, far from it. Increasingly complex surgery is regularly performed in patients with increasingly complex comorbidities, and older age per se is no longer seen as a barrier to day-case surgery.1,2 This is possible because of a combination of technological advances, improvements in anaesthesia and surgery,5and use of patient selection criteria that take into account relevant surgical, medical, and social factors.