Editorial Regional Anesthesia for Postoperative Pain Control

Copyright © 2014 Ahmet Eroglu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Pain is an outstanding problem after surgical trauma. Pain following surgery may initiate variety of mechanisms including inflammatory, visceral, or somatic in origin and may persist to be chronic pain if improperly treated. The incidence of postoperative pain has been reported to be as higher as 60%, and, despite intensive effort, it is not able to resolve completely [1]. Most of the surgeries become less invasive and are increasingly being outpatient-based in time dependent man-ner. Besides technical developments on surgery, this tendency is mainly dependent on effective pain control and reduction of the side effects related to the treatments. Opioids and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are the other mai