Factors that affect intravenous patient-controlled analgesia for postoperative pain following orthognathic surgery for mandibular prognathism.

The predictors of postoperative pain and analgesic consumption were previously found to include preoperative pain, anxiety, age, type of surgery, and genotype, but remaining unclear was whether intraoperative factors could predict postoperative pain. In the present study, we investigated the time-co...

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Main Authors: Yoshinori Aoki, Kaori Yoshida, Daisuke Nishizawa, Shinya Kasai, Tatsuya Ichinohe, Kazutaka Ikeda, Ken-ichi Fukuda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4043772?pdf=render