Abstract

CABO DE VILLA, Evangelina Dávila; MOREJON HERNANDEZ, Juana M.  and  ACOSTA FIGUEREDO, Enrique. Pain and painkillers. Some timely considerations. Medisur [online]. 2020, vol.18, n.4, pp.694-705.  Epub Aug 02, 2020. ISSN 1727-897X.

Pain has accompanied humanity from remote times to the present day; this is a very well- frequent symptom in health levels, where medicine presents successes and failures. For this reason it is a permanent researchers´ concern and occupation. Assisting pain is complex due to the variety of factors which conditions it. Therapeutic approach to this symptom must be based on pathophysiology knowledge and the use of means that allow assessing its origin and progress to adapt the corresponding analgesic strategies. In this work, a review is made on the aforementioned aspects in relation to pain.

Keywords : pain; anesthetics.

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