ANESTHESIOLOGY Annual Meeting

Key Highlights Six-month satisfaction data were available for 166 adults undergoing knee surgery.

Interviews with 15 older surgical patients identified psychological and social influences on acute pain, informing a biopsychosocial model.

A retrospective study evaluated whether preoperative distress predicts pain clinic referrals after mastectomy with immediate reconstruction.

A randomized controlled trial found lower pain, preoperative anxiety, and rescue analgesic use with biofeedback-guided breathing in laparoscopic cholecystectomy patients.

Researchers examined whether pain during the first postoperative week predicts quality-of-life recovery 90 days after lumbar fusion.