Analgesia en el paciente quemado.

Abstract

An fundamental part in the management of the burned patient is the control of pain through correct analgesia, knowing the type of pain and the phase in which the patient is located is necessary for the choice of medication, where the mainstay of treatment is usually being an opioid, currently the therapy must be multimodal in order to limit the requirements of opioids and thus avoid two phenomena of important knowledge such as tolerance and opioid-induced hyperalgesia, a multimodal treatment limits the appearance of side effects in these patients . Apart from that, non-pharmacological strategies are relevant for long-term management of these individuals. Adequate control positively influences healing and quality of life in these patients. Poor pain control not only exacerbates the acute event, but increases morbidities that develop secondarily such as anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder.