Pain Management and Anesthesiology contains the presentations made at the 43rd Annual Postgraduate Course in Anesthesiology sponsored by the University of Utah and held at Snowbird, Utah, USA, February 20-24, 1998.
This volume addresses recent advances in the understanding of the basic science and clinical management of pain. The textbook includes sections on recent advances in the understanding of pain signal processing, as well as reviews of the clinical management of acute, chronic, cancer-related, and pediatric pain. In addition, this text includes a discussion of the behavioral assessment and treatment of the pain patient. This textbook is the sixteenth in a continuing series documenting the proceedings of the postgraduate course.

Mechanisms of Opioid Analgesia and Tolerance.- Descending Facilitation of Pain.- The Contribution of NMDA and Second Messengers to the Persistent Pain States Produced by Tissue and Nerve Injury.- New Clinical Pharmacology Concepts in Pain Management.- The Contribution of Substance P to Long-term Changes in the Spinal Cord Dorsal Horn: Reorganization in the Setting of Persistent Injury.- Pain and the Surgical Stress Response.- Visceral Pain and Visceral Hyperalgesia.- Postoperative Pain: Assessment and Choice of Methods of Treatment.- Patient-controlled Analgesia (Part I): Historical Perspective.- Peripheral Treatment of Acute Pain.- Patient-controlled Analgesia (Part II): Update on Its Clinical Usage.- Organization and Operation of an Acute Pain Server.- Use of Non-opioid Analgesic Techniques.- Pain Management in Children.- Effect of Postoperative Pain on Surgical Outcome.- Pain Assessment in Kids-The Fifth Vital Sign.- Complications and Relative Safety of Regional Anesthesia in Children.- Pediatric Sedation Challenges Outside the Operating Room.- Spinal Opioids: Clinical Applications for Acute and Chronic Pain.- Epidural Steroids.- Mechanisms and Treatment of Spinal Cord Injury Pain: An Update.- Prevention of Post-Herpetic Neuralgia.- Update on Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology of Epidural Neural Blockade.- The Interface Between Acute and Chronic Pain Management.- Radiation Safety for the Pain Physician and the Use of a Laser Guided C-arm to Facilitate Pain Block Placements.