Psychological Assessment of Chronic Pain
(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…
Assessment and Measurement of Acute Pain
(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….
Pain Processing
(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…
Patient Evaluation
(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…
Nociceptors
(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…
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html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xmlns:mml=”http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:epub=”http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops”> Question bank Dr Claire M. Blandford, Dr Cathryn Matthews, Dr Theresa Hinde, and Dr Thomas Bradley Passing the Primary FRCA SOE: A Practical Guide, ed. Claire…
Diagnostic Imaging in Acute Care Surgery
CHAPTER 9 DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING IN ACUTE CARE SURGERY BEHROZE A. VACHHA, LEO L. TSAI, KAREN S. LEE, AND MARC A. CAMACHO The management of acute care surgical patients, as that…
Inflammatory Conditions of the Gastrointestinal Tract
CHAPTER 35 INFLAMMATORY CONDITIONS OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT MATTHEW SCHUCHERT, VAISHALI SCHUCHERT, AND BRIAN ZUCKERBRAUN INFLAMMATORY EMERGENCIES OF THE ESOPHAGUS Acute, inflammatory conditions of the esophagus requiring urgent treatment are…
Hematologic Abnormalities, Coagulopathy, and Transfusion Therapy
CHAPTER 10 HEMATOLOGIC ABNORMALITIES, COAGULOPATHY, AND TRANSFUSION THERAPY LENA M. NAPOLITANO HEMATOLOGIC ABNORMALITIES Red Blood Cell Disorders Anemia Anemia is common in critically ill and injured patients admitted to the intensive…
