Postoperative Pain Management of Caesarean Section: a Prospective, Observational Cohort Study
Caesarean section is one of the most frequent surgeries causing severe postoperative pain. Poor management of acute pain can contribute to postoperative complications, late recovery and the development of chronic pain. Moreover, it had been demonstrated that the intensity of postpartum pain is associated with depression. It is imperative to find out appropriate methods of postpartum pain alleviation. Currently, a lot of analgesic drugs and methods have been developed and used in clinical practice, such as patient-controlled analgesia, extended-release analgesics and multimodal analgesia. This prospective cohort study is aimed to investigate the outcome of each postoperative analgesic method used in caesarean section.
• Aged 20 to 40.
• Planing to undergo caesarean section with spinal anesthesia.
• Scheduled to undergo cesarean section between 37 and 40 weeks of gestation.
• American Society of Anesthesiology Physical Class 1-2.
• Planing to alleviate postoperative pain with intravenous patient-controlled analgesia or administration of NALDEBAIN.