| Abstrakt: |
Pain can be thought to be the result of the brain's response to tissue damage: this may lead to attribute a simplistic nature to pain. In reality, sensory, cognitive, and affective processes all influence the subjective experience of pain which therefore assumes substantially more complex characteristics: there is therefore a concrete potential for diagnostic or therapeutic error deriving from a fallacious global evaluation of pain. Some key concepts, based on literature data rather than on clinical experiences, are outlined. First, the need to not underestimate pain as possible first expression of an infectious problem. Also, given the need to guarantee patients appropriate pain treatment, evidence on multimodal analgesia in acute pain (drug therapy, non-drug therapy, anesthesia), up to multidisciplinary approaches (with a neurologist, psychiatrist, physiatrist, etc.) in chronic pain have been reviewed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
