STAPG Further Info - Learning

The South Thames Acute Pain Group (STAPG) has produced this page of useful information.

If you would like information to be added please email inge.bateman@wsht.nhs.uk

The information provided is not being critiqued by STAPG and items are suggestions by individuals with the purpose of sharing information with fellow acute pain management specialists.

• Perioperative use of paracetamol. Oscier CD, Miner QJW. Anaesthesia 2009; 64-72
  It highlights recent information and helps explain the variable nature of its effect – often linked to inadequate dosage.
  
  
  
• The latest audit report from RCoA (NAP 3) on safety of central neuraxial blocks.
  http://www.rcoa.ac.uk/index.asp?PageID=717
  
  
  
• Felicia Cox (Ed) 2008, Perioperative Pain Management, Wiley-Blackwell.
  ISBN: 978-1-4051-8077-1
  
  It’s a practice based reference book which will be of interest to students and experienced clinicians in the MDT across specialities with its up-to-date evidence in every aspect of perioperative pain management from physiology to pharmacology, psychology to practical interventions and overcoming barriers.
  
  A good all round text book that also covers the more challenging areas of pain management in paediatrics; the older patient; chronic pain; the patient with renal impairment and in day case surgery.
  
  
• National Audit of Major Complications of Central Neuraxial Block in the United Kingdom
  Report and Findings January 2009
  http://www.rcoa.ac.uk/index.asp?PageID=717


• Use of intra-articular local anaesthetic infusions should probably be avoided - see recent FDA report:   http://www.fda.gov/Safety/MedWatch/SafetyInformation/SafetyAlertsforHumanMedicalProducts/ucm190496.htm
  


• FPM RCoA document on Best practice for epidurals: These guidelines are concerned with the management of epidural analgesia in the hospital setting, including continuous infusions, patient-controlled epidural analgesia (PCEA) and intermittent top-up injections. They are not concerned with the management of epidural analgesia for obstetrics, palliative care or management of persistent non-cancer pain.   http://www.rcoa.ac.uk/docs/EpiduralAnalgesia2010.pdf