title: Acute pain medicine in anesthesiology.
abstract: The American Academy of Pain Medicine and the American Society for Regional Anesthesia have recently focused on the evolving practice of acute pain medicine. There is increasing recognition that the scope and practice of acute pain therapies must extend beyond the subacute pain phase to include pre-pain and pre-intervention risk stratification, resident and fellow education in regional anesthesia and multimodal analgesia, as well as a deeper understanding of the pathophysiologic mechanisms that are integral to the variability observed among individual responses to nociception. Acute pain medicine is also being established as a vital component of successful systems-level acute pain management programs, inpatient cost containment, and patient satisfaction scores. In this review, we discuss the evolution and practice of acute pain medicine and we aim to facilitate further discussion on the evolution and advancement of this field as a subspecialty of anesthesiology.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Florida College of Medicine 1600 SW Archer Road, PO Box 100254, Gainesville, FL 32610 USA ; Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Acute and Perioperative Pain Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine 1600 SW Archer Road, PO Box 100254, Gainesville, FL 32610 USA.
authors.forename: André P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Boezaart
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Acute and Perioperative Pain Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine 1600 SW Archer Road, PO Box 100254, Gainesville, FL 32610 USA.
authors.forename: Anastacia P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Munro
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Acute and Perioperative Pain Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine 1600 SW Archer Road, PO Box 100254, Gainesville, FL 32610 USA.
authors.forename: Patrick J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Tighe