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Pain control after surgery reduces days of hospitalization

Effective postoperative pain control using continuous peripheral nerve block reduced hospitalization by nearly a day, University of Pittsburgh physicians reported today during the 81st Clinical and Scientific Congress of the International Anesthesia Research Society.Being able to decrease the time that patients spend in the hospital helps to reduce the patient’s exposure to the risk of hospital-acquired infection and associated complications, and also has an overall economic benefit, Dr. Chelly and his colleagues found.

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