Significant progress in the management of postoperative pain has been made since the 1990s. Increased awareness of the undertreatment of postoperative pain, improved analgesic techniques, and new analgesic agents have…
This chapter is divided in two main sections. The first section addresses the future of pain medicine, and the second tackles the newest trends in pain treatment. The overarching principle…
Sickle cell disease (SCD) refers to a related group of genetic hemoglobin disorders. Sickle hemoglobin has a single mutation resulting in the replacement of glutamine with valine at the sixth…
Several federal agencies have acknowledged and set goals toward eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health (and health care) and promoting health equity. The literature discussing health and health care…
It is traditionally held that the first comparative clinical trial was performed in 1747 by Dr. James Lind (1716-1794) of the British Royal Navy to identify a treatment for scurvy….
The end stages of chronic, progressive, life-limiting diseases bring a host of difficult symptoms and causes of suffering. There are disease-mediated symptoms, such as pain, dyspnea, fatigue, and loss of…
Ethics and Science need to shake hands. Dr. RICHARD CLARKE CABOT, 1936 Medical experimentation has a long history. Biblical references suggest that as early as the sixth century bce ,…
Pain in the critically ill is poorly understood. Only recently has attention and investigation turned toward the issues of pain assessment and treatment in this patient population, and existing literature…
Overview of Radiation Safety Pain practitioners have come to rely on fluoroscopy and, to a lesser but growing extent, on computed tomography (CT) to facilitate image-guided pain treatment techniques. Fluoroscopy…
