The review looked at 15 studies that applied three types of pain stimuli: thermal, pressure and electrical pain. The intensity of suprathreshold heat pain (i.e. pain beyond patient threshold) was most consistently shown to correlate with postoperative pain.
The most common limitation of the studies was the method of statistical analysis and lack of multivariate analysis, according to the review.
Read the review in Anesthesiology.
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