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Besides the adverse outcomes attributed to acute pain management interventions, another
area of interest is whether the adverse outcomes of trauma and surgery might be prevented
by effective acute pain management. Outcomes such as mortality, morbidity due to
derangements of the cardiovascular, respiratory, GI and coagulation systems and progression
to chronic pain have also been reported (see Section 1.3).

Key message
The following tick box  represents conclusions based on clinical experience and expert
opinion.
 Multiple outcome measures are required to adequately capture the complexity of the pain
experience and how it may be modified by pain management interventions (U).

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