Pain in Breast Surgery Intervention

The handout was single-paged (front and back), and was titled Pain After Surgery: What to Expect. The handout starts with information on rating pain and expectations for control of pain, not complete absence of pain, after surgery. Mutli-modal approach to pain control is then discussed, including pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic methods that may be used for pain control by the perioperative team and postoperatively.

Standard patient counseling