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Hance Clarke

Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesia, University of Toronto
Verified email at uhn.ca
Cited by 9421

The prevention of chronic postsurgical pain using gabapentin and pregabalin: a combined systematic review and meta-analysis

H Clarke, RP Bonin, BA Orser, M Englesakis… - Anesthesia & …, 2012 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND: Many clinical trials have demonstrated the effectiveness of gabapentin and
pregabalin administration in the perioperative period as an adjunct to reduce acute …

Effect of total-body prehabilitation on postoperative outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

D Santa Mina, H Clarke, P Ritvo, YW Leung… - Physiotherapy, 2014 - Elsevier
Objective To systematically review the evidence of pre-operative exercise, known as
'prehabilitation', on peri-and postoperative outcomes in adult surgical populations. Design …

Preventive analgesia: quo vadimus?

J Katz, H Clarke, Z Seltzer - Anesthesia & Analgesia, 2011 - journals.lww.com
The classic definition of preemptive analgesia requires 2 groups of patients to receive
identical treatment before or after incision or surgery. The only difference between the 2 …

Rates and risk factors for prolonged opioid use after major surgery: population based cohort study

H Clarke, N Soneji, DT Ko, L Yun, DN Wijeysundera - Bmj, 2014 - bmj.com
Objective To describe rates and risk factors for prolonged postoperative use of opioids in
patients who had not previously used opioids and undergoing major elective surgery …

Pharmacological management of chronic neuropathic pain: revised consensus statement from the Canadian Pain Society

DE Moulin, A Boulanger, AJ Clark, H Clarke… - Pain Research and …, 2014 - hindawi.com
BACKGROUND: Neuropathic pain (NeP), redefined as pain caused by a lesion or a disease
of the somatosensory system, is a disabling condition that affects approximately two million …

Assessment of functional capacity before major non-cardiac surgery: an international, prospective cohort study

DN Wijeysundera, RM Pearse, MA Shulman… - The Lancet, 2018 - thelancet.com
Background Functional capacity is an important component of risk assessment for major
surgery. Doctors' clinical subjective assessment of patients' functional capacity has uncertain …

Pain catastrophizing as a risk factor for chronic pain after total knee arthroplasty: a systematic review

LC Burns, SE Ritvo, MK Ferguson, H Clarke… - Journal of pain …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Background Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is a common and costly surgical procedure.
Despite high success rates, many TKA patients develop chronic pain in the months and …

The Toronto General Hospital Transitional Pain Service: development and implementation of a multidisciplinary program to prevent chronic postsurgical pain

J Katz, A Weinrib, SR Fashler, R Katznelzon… - Journal of pain …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Chronic postsurgical pain (CPSP), an often unanticipated result of necessary and even life-
saving procedures, develops in 5–10% of patients one-year after major surgery. Substantial …

[HTML][HTML] Consensus recommendations on dosing and administration of medical cannabis to treat chronic pain: results of a modified Delphi process

A Bhaskar, A Bell, M Boivin, W Briques… - Journal of cannabis …, 2021 - Springer
Background Globally, medical cannabis legalization has increased in recent years and
medical cannabis is commonly used to treat chronic pain. However, there are few …

Pharmacologic management of chronic neuropathic pain: Review of the Canadian Pain Society consensus statement

A Mu, E Weinberg, DE Moulin, H Clarke - Canadian Family Physician, 2017 - cfp.ca
Objective To provide family physicians with a practical clinical summary of the Canadian
Pain Society (CPS) revised consensus statement on the pharmacologic management of …