The South Thames Acute Pain Group (STAPG) has produced this page of useful information.
If you would like information to be added please email wendy.caddye@bsuh.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: 978-1-4051-8077-1It’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.Perioperative Pain Management
- 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