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Regional anesthesia and chronification of acute postoperative pain
2014
Chronification of acute postoperative pain is the consequence of a number of factors; the article mentions different preemptive strategies that may put a limit to its development. Certain anesthetic and analgesic techniques have been assessed over the last years, and most articles highlight the usefulness of carrying out regional anesthesia techniques from the intraoperative period through several days into the postoperative period. Preventing the patients from suffering acute postoperative pain is one of the most appropriate tools for stopping the activation of the mechanisms involved in pain chronification. None of the regional techniques are equally valid and applicable to all surgical p…
Machine-learned selection of psychological questionnaire items relevant to the development of persistent pain after breast cancer surgery
2018
Background: Prevention of persistent pain after breast cancer surgery, via early identification of patients at high risk, is a clinical need. Psychological factors are among the most consistently proposed predictive parameters for the development of persistent pain. However, repeated use of long psychological questionnaires in this context may be exhaustive for a patient and inconvenient in everyday clinical practice. Methods: Supervised machine learning was used to create a short form of questionnaires that would provide the same predictive performance of pain persistence as the full questionnaires in a cohort of 1000 women followed up for 3 yr after breast cancer surgery. Machine-learned …