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Anesthesia and Pain Management

Anesthesia for pain relief during surgery

  1. Anaesthesia Explained and You and Your Anaesthetic, Royal College of Anaesthetists and Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland
  2. Anesthesia Patient Resources American Association of Nurse Anesthetists
  3. Guidelines for Adult Patients Intravenous PCA Orders Loyola University Chicago
  4. Equianalgesic Dosing Opioid Interchange Joseph Bubalo PharmD, BCPS, BCOP, Oncology Clinical Pharmacist, Assistant Professor Of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University
  5. Anesthesia for children:
    1. Preparing for Your Child's Surgery and Anesthesia ... A Parent's Role American Association of Nurse Anesthetists
    2. Children's Patient Controlled Analgesia
      1. Children's Patient Controlled Analgesia American Medical Association
      2. Acute Pain Management for Children Recommended doses University of Iowa Virtual Hospital

Relief of chronic pain

Chronic pain is different than acute pain and must be treated differently.
  1. How to Get Relief from Chronic Pain and Treatment of Nonmalignant Chronic Pain Dawn A. Marcus, M.D., University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, American Academy of Family Physicians
  2. TENS Units electrical stimulators to treat chronic pain
    1. What is TENS?
    2. How to Use a Tens Unit
  3. Harvard University Neurosurgery Department Chronic pain forum
  4. Reflex sympathetic dystrophy, severe burning pain, changes in bone and skin, sweating, swelling, and extreme sensitivity to touch, US National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
   

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