New progress of orthopaedic postoperative multimodal analgesia

A single drug or a method may not achieve the best result for the management post-operative pain, so multimodal analgesia is proposed as a new analgesic concept in recent years. This article describes the mechanism of postoperative pain, some of the factors affecting postoperative pain and the importance of the treatment of postoperative pain after surgery. It also introduces a variety of analgesic drugs and methods commonly used as multimodal analgesia in postoperative pain treatment in orthopaedic. Foreground of the research is prospected as well. Key words: Postoperative pain;  Multimodal analgesia;  Methods