Postoperative Analgesia

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Pain is defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) as β€˜an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience primarily associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage.’

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Coluzzi, F. (2014). Postoperative Analgesia. In: Alemanno, F., Bosco, M., Barbati, A. (eds) Anesthesia of the Upper Limb. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-5418-9_15

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