Acute pain management: scientific evidence

This publication summarises the evidence currently available to assist health professionals in the management of acute pain. The field of acute pain medicine is a rapidly changing one.
Acute Pain Management: Scientific Evidence1 was first published by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia in 1999. An editorial2 published the same year in the British Journal of Anaesthesia assessed the importance of this document along with Guidelines on the Use of NSAIDs in the Perioperative Period.3 It was noted that ‘there is still a need for properly conducted controlled clinical studies evaluating most areas of therapy in acute pain’ and that ‘guidelines can only remain valid for a relatively short period’ as the field of pain management is a rapidly evolving one.

Book details:
Author:Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists
Publisher:Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists
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Anaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency

Anaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency A.P.I.C.E.: Proceedings of the 22st Postgraduate Course in Critical Medicine Venice-Mestre, Italy - November 9-11, 2007
By A. Gullo

Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 424
Publication Date: 2007-12-20
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 8847007720
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9788847007727
Binding: Paperback

Product Description:
Improving standards of care is a real challenge in Intensive Care Medicine. Bettering clinical performance, patient safety, risk management and audit represents the cornerstone for raising the quality of care in ICU patients. Communication is the platform from where to start to reach a consensus in an extremely crowded area, a unique multidisciplinary and multiprofessional environment in which quality of care and, ultimately, patient survival need to be ameliorated.
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Injury: International Journal of the Care of the Injured - May 2008

Injury was founded in 1969 and is an international journal dealing with all aspects of trauma care and accident surgery. Our primary aim is to facilitate the exchange of ideas, techniques and information among all members of the trauma team.
Topics covered include: trauma systems and management; surgical procedures; epidemiological studies; surgery (of all tissues); resuscitation; biomechanics; rehabilitation; anaesthesia; radiology; basic science of local and systemic response to trauma and tissue healing.
Regular features include: original research papers; review articles; case reports; ideas and innovations detailing novel and effective solutions to surgical problems; book reviews; calendar of world-wide meetings.
Letters that comment on an article previously published in Injury are particularly encouraged, and the authors will be given the opportunity to respond. Please submit letters to the editor by e-mail where possible to editor@injuryjournal.com.
The journal also publishes a series of scientific supplements documenting the work of the AO/ASIF Research, Development and Clinical Studies, and occasionally supplements detailing the work of other groups.
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