Incidencia del dolor crónico postoperatorio y factores asociados

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Abstract: Objective:Determine the incidence of chronic postoperative pain and its associated factors on patients undergoing surgery at the Traumatology services of the Manuel Ygnacio Monteros Hospital, during February2019-June 2019 period.Methodology:Is a prospective, descriptiveand observationalstudy, whose sample size was 50 patientsto whom acute pain was evaluated on the immediatepostoperative with the EVAtest and also chronic pain was evaluatedthrough the PainDETECT questionnaireResults:The incidence of chronic postoperative pain was 12,5%. There was moderate to severe pain in the immediate postoperative period in more than the 55% of the patients. In addition,there was development of postoperative chronic pain in 12.5% of patients at the third month of follow-up. Conclusions: The duration of the surgery and the scores obtained in the EVA and the PainDETECT in the follow-up of acute pain were the factors that were related to the development of chronic postoperative pain.