By Michael Vlessides
Originally published by our sister publication, Pain Medicine News
Of the many postoperative adverse events that patients can experience after inpatient noncardiac surgery, perhaps one of the most overlooked is long-term incisional pain. Yet, as the largest study on the subject to date recently concluded, persistent incisional pain is commonplace after inpatient noncardiac surgery, affecting as many as 3% of adults.
Perhaps most disturbingly, the researchers found that the