Anesthesiology Clinics: Pain Management

Acute pain medicine in anesthesiology

The American Academy of Pain Medicine and the American Society for Regional Anesthesia have recently focused on the evolving practice of acute pain medicine. There is increasing recognition that the scope and practice of acute pain therapies must extend beyond the subacute pain phase to include pre-pain and pre-intervention risk stratification, resident and fellow education in regional anesthes...

Psychological Strategies in Pain Management: Optimizing Procedures in Clinics

Early inflammatory clinics. Experience with early arthritis/back pain clinics.

There is a clear need to assess patients presenting with a new onset of inflammatory peripheral arthritis and/or back pain early. Indeed, the clinical presentation of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is not always characteristic but its early diagnosis is crucial to prevent irreversible structural damage. Likewise low back pain is common in the general population but may be related to ankylosing spond...

Update in Trauma Anesthesiology: Perioperative Resuscitation Management

The management of trauma patients has matured significantly since a systematic approach to trauma care was introduced nearly a half century ago. The resuscitation continuum emphasizes the effect that initial therapy has on the outcome of the trauma patient. The initiation of this continuum begins with prompt field medical care and efficient transportation to designated trauma centers, where lif...

Crisis Management in Anesthesiology, 2nd Edition.

Crisis Management in Anesthesiology is an important resource on my library shelf. I came across the first edition of this book when I graduated from anesthesia residency in 1995. The title was enticing, and I was motivated by a desire to improve my skills as a clinician in challenging and complex settings. It was the first book I had seen that detailed the cognitive processes of the anesthesia ...