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Hello ladies and gentlemen. Welcome
back to our ongoing series
of lectures on Anesthesiology. In this lecture we're going
to talk about the Management Of Pain, which
is an area of great passion to me
and the focus is going to be primarily on
Chronic Pain, because we've already
covered some aspects of Acute Pain.
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So, our agenda for this lecture are going
to include definitions of pain, some of the
what we know about the Pathophysiology of pain,
the various families of Analgesics that
are used to manage pain, the modes of delivery
of those different analgesics, and then
there are going to be three small case reports,
just to give you an idea of how management can
vary according to the way a patient presents
with pain. And then, because it's a very
special area of pain management and, although
we've covered it briefly in passing previously,
I'm going to spend a little bit more time going over
some of the details associated with Management
of Obstetrical Pain. So, this is the Oxford
pocket dictionary definition
of Pain. Strongly unpleasant bodily
sensation such as is caused by illness
or injury. Mental suffering or
distress. It can be a vulgar
term as “pain in the neck” or other anatomical
areas. Can be great pain, great cares
or troubles, 'I have pain'.
And it can be a idiomatic verb
as “to pain”. To pain somebody,
to pain something. In every
language there are literally hundreds of descriptors
for pain. And this is an indication
of how ubiquitous this problem is,
and how much trouble we have
in trying to describe our discomfort.