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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