Specificity of pain management in developing countries
Developing countries account to more than 80% of the world population. In the last two decades, the term 'developing countries' is used to group the countries that have not yet reached level of sophisticated industrialization like Western Europe and North America. In developing countries,...
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| Language: | English |
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Serbian Society of Anesthesiologists and Intensivists
2018-01-01
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| Series: | Serbian Journal of Anesthesia and Intensive Therapy |
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| Online Access: | https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/2217-7744/2018/2217-77441806143M.pdf |
| Summary: | Developing countries account to more than 80% of the world population. In the last two decades, the term 'developing countries' is used to group the countries that have not yet reached level of sophisticated industrialization like Western Europe and North America. In developing countries, acute postoperative pain management has special considerations. Barriers to implementing adequate acute postoperative pain management refer to health service organization, drug availability, inadequate education of pain management providers, as well as inadequate education of patients themselves and prejudices they may have regarding their postoperative pain and consequences if is inadequately treated. Health care workers in developing world are making effort to improve postoperative pain management. Serbia has been included in PAIN OUT European network initiative, with the aim to construct the bundle of simply applied measures and the effects of their implementation on postoperative pain treatment. So far, most of these measures refer to health service improvement, increasing availability of opioid analgetics, local anaesthetics and non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs as well as education of the medical staff, patients and families. |
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| ISSN: | 2217-7744 2466-488X |