(Source: File Photo) Patient should be counselled about postoperative pain. (Source: File Photo)Overestimating the anticipated amount of pain patients experience following surgery can cause unnecessary anxiety in them, researchers have warned. Patients’ average expected pain rating immediately following surgery was 4.66 compared to an actual pain rating of 2.56. The average expected pain rating on the first day after surgery was 5.45 compared to an actual pain rating of 4.30. Patients who had regional anaesthesia had an average expected pain rating in the PACU of 4.63 compared to an actual pain rating of 0.92.

Source: Indian Express October 23, 2017 06:53 UTC