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Pain Medicine
A subspecialty of anesthesia, pain medicine deals with the treatment of both acute and chronic pain.
October 29, 2003: Ketamine: Teaching and Old Dog New Tricks?
Ketamine is an old and much maligned drug. Recent findings, however, indicate that it might be making a comeback and could be used in some interesting ways.
June 1, 2002: Treating Pain Before It Starts: Pre-emptive Analgesia
Is the concept of pre-emptive analgesia real or just a pipe dream? Here is a short discussion. Includes bibliography for further research.
February 6, 2002: ASA Practice Advisory: Peripheral Neuropathy
The American Society of Anesthesiologists has released a practice advisory on prevention of peripheral neuropathy in the perioperative period. What is a practice advisory? What does this mean for your practice?
February 4, 2002: Epidurals: A Cause of Long Term Back Pain?
The question often arises as to whether epidurals cause long-term back pain in patients. Recent study results show that the risk of long term backache is not increased after epidural anesthesia.
February 1, 2002: Trigeminal Neuralgia
Trigeminal neuralgia is a common disorder that results in pain in the face or headache. Anesthesiologists are often involved in treating these patients either during the initial workup of headache, in pain clinics for chronic therapy or to give anesthesia for surgical intervention.
January 27, 2002: Phantom Limb Pain
Phantom limb syndrome has been intriguing to doctors and irritating to patients throughout the history of medicine. Now new research may shed some light on the problem.
January 25, 2002: Pain: Basic Principles
Discusses the basic mechanisms, pathways, assessment and treatment principles of pain.
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