Anesthesia Key

(1) Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK   IASP defines neuropathic pain as “pain caused by lesion or disease of the somatosensory system”. Neuropathic pain comprises pain, paraesthesia…

(1) Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK   Neuropathic pain is the pain caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory nervous system (IASP definition). The challenge…

(1) Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK   Assessment of chronic pain is not as straightforward as acute pain as patients often have accompanying anxiety and depression. They…

(1) Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK   Assessment of acute pain includes appropriate pain history and evaluation with regard to different aspects of pain including functional impairment….

(1) Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK   3.1 Peripheral Mechanisms The activation of nociceptors depends on the magnitude of the stimuli. A stimulus larger than the threshold…

(1) Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK   History taking in chronic pain patients should be precise and targeted. The questions should focus on all aspects of pain…

(1) Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK   Primary afferent fibres responding to high-threshold noxious stimuli (noxious thermal, mechanical, chemical) are called nociceptors. They either belong to Aδ…