A 54-year-old woman is being admitted to the postsurgical unit following a transverse rectus abdominis myocutaneous (TRAM) flap. The patient's care plan specifies the use of preemptive analgesia. This approach to pain control will involve
A) frequent administration of high-dose opioids.
B) simultaneous use of analgesics from different drug classes.
C) alternating administration of opioid antagonists with opioid agonists.
D) patient-controlled analgesia.
B
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Preemptive analgesia is used to reduce postsurgical pain by simultaneously administering medications from different drug classes to suppress pain by blocking multiple pain pathways. It is not synonymous with PCA and does not require alternation between opioid agonists and antagonists.
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