Implementation of a Pain Management Plan in Major Open Abdominal Surgeries.

Introduction: Major abdominal surgery encompasses a broad range of surgical procedures in heterogeneous patient populations.Management of postoperative pain has received keen attention in recent years with considerable concurrent advancement in the field.Despite this improvement,postoperative pain continues to be a challenge since suboptimal postoperative pain control is a risk factor for persistent surgical pain,increased morbidity,poorer functional recovery and reduced quality of life.Therefore,analgesic strategies should regard patients' factors as well as surgical procedures peculiarities.Since efforts are made throughout the years and are of utmost importance as numerous analgesic options exist for the effective pain control after abdominal surgeries including multiple classes of drugs and routes of administration(i.e.parenteral,regional,neuraxia.)In the context of the current surg