Management of Pain in the Immediate Post-Operative Patient with Patients Submitted to General Anesthesia

Pain is a subjective and multidimensional experience, present in the majority of patients undergoing surgical procedures. It can cause suffering, distress and impair quality of life, being associated with emotional, spiritual or personal, social and economic issues of individuals [1]. Due to the need to treat pain as a discomfort in the postoperative period, criteria were defined to assess the degree of pain, such as the application of a verbal numeric rating scale, where patients are asked to rate their pain [2]. General anesthesia appeared in the 19th century in order to stabilize the basal conditions and alleviate pain during the intraoperative period [3]. General anesthesia is defined by virtue of the state of reversible unconsciousness, characterized by amnesia, painlessness, muscle relaxation, loss of sensation and reflexes obtained by specific pharmacological agents, its action is in the central nervous system, taking the patient to a state severe sensorial depression and the disappearance of pain, so that surgical procedures can be performed; administration may be by inhalation or intravenous administration [4].