title: [Analgesia of postoperative pain in ambulatory surgery].
abstract: Although the role of outpatient surgery has become increasingly important in the campaign to reduce waiting lists and health care costs, careful control and treatment of postoperative pain too often receives slight attention. Pain control after surgery must produce high quality analgesia without lengthening the hospital stay or increasing the risk of complications. The risk of side effects must be low, the safety margin wide and administration simple. Anesthesiologists must therefore take preventive measures as well as apply techniques during and after surgery that diminish the intensity of pain and the incidence of nausea or vomiting. Drugs that act in the short term and have few side effects, regional anesthesia (depending on type of operation), non-opioid analgesics and balanced analgesia seem to give good quality control of pain after outpatient surgery.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Anestesiología, Reanimación y Terapéutica del Dolor, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jiménez
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Català
authors.forename: J I
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Casas
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Aliaga
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Villar-Landeira
mesh_terms: D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures; D000698:Analgesia; D006801:Humans; D007430:Intraoperative Care; D010149:Postoperative Pain / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011182:Postoperative Care; D011300:Preoperative Care
vernacular_title: Analgesia del dolor postoperatorio en cirugía ambulatoria.