Acute Post Operative Pain Management Emma Lamont - 18 Weeks

NHS National Waiting Times Centre
The Patient in Pain
• “By any reasonable code, freedom from pain should be a basic
human right limited only by our knowledge of achieving it”
• Liebeskind & Melzack
Pain. 1987.
• “Pain is whatever the person experiencing it says it is, existing
whenever the person says it does”
• McCaffery 1968
• “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated
with actual or potential tissue damage or it is described in terms
of such damage”
• The International association
for the study of pain