Acute Pain Management & Analgesic Ladder
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Acute pain is a protective, self-limiting symptom of tissue injury that, if poorly controlled (especially postoperatively), drives morbidity — atelectasis, ileus, DVT, chronic pain and delayed recovery. The modern exam favours the multimodal analgesia concept and a "reverse" WHO ladder applied to surgical pain. Pain is defined by the IASP (revised 2020) as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated…