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An Anaesthetist's Management of Chronic Pain
Author(s) -
Cherry David A.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
australian drug and alcohol review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.018
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1465-3362
pISSN - 0819-5331
DOI - 10.1080/09595238780000491
Subject(s) - medicine , chronic pain , pain control , pain ladder , opioid , cancer pain , pain management , physical therapy , intensive care medicine , alternative medicine , anesthesia , receptor , pathology
Pain Clinics should be staffed to find alternative means of helping to control the symptoms of the patient with chronic pain other than by the administration of either non‐steroidal type analgesics or opioid analgesics. It is well known that the chronic administration of both of these agents causes long term problems except in the symptomatic control of the patient with cancer pain. The reasons for this are discussed. Alternative means of pain control are discussed including recent advances in the understanding of pain transmission and its alleviation; assessment techniques and some indication of the future of Pain Clinics are also given.