Pain management (acute)

Summary of changes

Addition: Side effects of opioid administration

Deletion: Types of pain table, and sub-sections on nerve pain and chronic pain

Medicines: For moderate pain: added combined paracetamol and ibuprofen, and oxycodone

Other: Focus changed from general pain conditions to acute pain

Primary references

1. Expert Group for Pain and Analgesia, version 7 (2020) Pain and Analgesia, Therapeutic Guidelines, accessed 5 October 2022.

2. Working Group of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists and Faculty of Pain Medicine (2020) Acute Pain Management: Scientific Evidence 5th edition, ANZCA & FPM, Melbourne, accessed 5 October 2022.