Pain management strategies in urethral reconstruction: a narrative review.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objective

Few investigations explore pain recovery comprehensively following urethral reconstruction, and understanding pain pathways that lead to discomfort following reconstruction has posed challenges. Options for pain control aside from opioids continue to be in the early forms of investigation, and remain an important strategy to combat the well-documented burden of the opioid epidemic. We conduct a detailed assessment of pain pathways in patients undergoing urethral reconstruction and further outline non-narcotic based pain management strategies in those undergoing urethroplasty.

Methods

We performed a literature review to describe pain pathways involved in urethral reconstruction with buccal graft, and postoperative pain recovery. We searched for pain m

SUBMITTER: Chang C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9641060 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature