[Perioperative pain management at the department of orthopaedic surgery of the Vienna Medical School].

Surgical treatment in the skeleton region and its adjacent tissue causes severe pain, demonstrated by the high demand of anaesthetics in the early postoperative phase. In order to offer adequate and individually adapted pain management, the orthopaedic department is working closely with the departments of anaesthesiology and intensive care medicine of the Vienna Medical University at the Vienna's General Hospital. The aim of this cooperation is to start postoperative rehabilitation early, to increase postoperative quality of life and to reduce the length of hospital stay.