Chronic Pain After Surgery in the ICU

RUNNING HEAD: CHRONIC PAIN after surgery in the ICU
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The transition from acute to chronic pain: might intensive care unit patients be at risk?
According to Kyranou& Puntilo (2012), Patients hospitalized in ICU endure pain especially after they have been discharged. This makes it a risk element that contributes to the evolution from acute pain to chronic pain. Chronic pain is the most important distraction of pain neurological structure. Altered cognitive and emotional processing is regarded as a vital contributor to the undue suffering that is a feature of chronic pain disorders. Since the pain experience consists of both emotional and sensory elements, some hypothesize those physiological changes that are allowed to continue can be associated with intensification in the affective, perceptual, and motivational elements of the pain experience.
Summary of the findings
The article has reviewed progressive theories concerning pain and mechanisms that lie beneath the evolution from acute pain to chronic pain like rise in membrane excitability of central and peripheral nerve fibers, synaptic plasticity, and loss of the role of descending inhibitory pain filaments. The article has also discussed systems at brain levels within the nervous system and their involvement to emotional states linked with chronic pain disorders. It has continued to offer information regarding the link between pain and immune system, and its vital contribution to progression of chronic pain diseases. The aim in critical care is to acknowledge the potential for this evolution and try to obstruct it by insistent use of curative interventions of pain. Additionally, when ICU patients are identified as having chronic pains along with their acute sicknesses, physicians can appreciate the density of this condition and use intrusions that move towards aiming on neuropathic pain systems.
Validity of findings
The article seems to have valid explanations and hence it is trustworthy to a great deal. This is because the authors have undertaken extensive research on different areas ...