Abstract:

Post-surgical pain is a common problem in patients. If pain is not treated after surgery, it may cause complications by acting on the systems and may become chronic. Multimodal analgesia is a method which is aimed at using evidence-based practices for pain management, effective analgesia, minimizing the adverse effects of drugs, using safe and low-dose analgesia, early recovery, early conversion of functions, early discharge. Pharmacological treatment is also supported by non-pharmacological methods in multimodal analgesia methods. Multimodal analgesia requires multidisciplinary team work. The nurses is also the most important member of this team and have important responsibilities in pain management. The purpose of this review, to take attention to multimodal analgesia and nursing approach which is one of the current approaches of postoperative pain management. In addition this the number of studies performed by nurses or multidisciplinary team which include nurses about multimodal analgesia in the literature is very small. Studies show that nurses have an effective role in the multimodal analgesia approach. In this context, nurses should investigate current literature in pain management and evidence-based applications, have knowledge about multimodal analgesia. This subject should be included in the training of the student nurses and in the in-service training and nurses should be aware of their duties and responsibilities in pain management and should make contributions to the literature

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