Pain Management

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.

Interviews explore how older surgical patients perceive their role in postoperative pain management and their preferred level of engagement.

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.

An institutional analysis examines first-year outpatient suzetrigine prescribing across orthopedic surgical and pain services.

A comparative deep learning study found highly correlated facial attention maps, although the human-trained model showed better pain/non-pain separation.

A secondary trial analysis found 21% higher odds of greater delirium severity per unit increase in day 1 pain after elective noncardiac surgery.

A retrospective Stanford cohort of 3,992 surgical adults linked socioeconomic status to lower maximum postoperative pain after adjustment.