This guide has been designed for medical specialists interested in Pain medicine to locate relevant resources on this topic, including those available through the ANZCA library.
Questions and Answers in Pain Medicine: A Guide to Board Exams by This book provides a practical and comprehensive review of pain medicine in a clear and easy to apply question and answer format. Divided by topic, the book includes Q&As on Pain Basics, Psychology, Common Pain Syndromes, Medications, Pain Management in Special Populations and Interventional Pain. It is intended as a guide for residents and fellows and is written in such a manner to provide instantaneous feedback on correct answer choice and explanation for self-evaluation while preparing for written board examinations.
Interventional Pain by This comprehensive book serves as a review for the Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) exam and functions as a concise guide for all interventional pain doctors. Through educational initiatives, it helps to promote consensus-building among experts on the effectiveness of existing techniques and avenues for advancement of therapeutic performances.
Trigeminal Nerve Pain by Trigeminal Nerve Pain comprehensively covers how to manage patients with this often debilitating pain and is of use to trainees and practising internists, hospitalists, surgeons and anaesthesiologists seeking to increase their understanding of this complex condition.
Machado-Alba JE, Serna-Echeverri LS, Valladales-Restrepo LF, Machado-Duque ME, Gaviria-Mendoza A. Use of tramadol or other analgesics in patients treated in the emergency department as a risk factor for opioid use. Pain Research Management. 2020 Nov 20;2020:8847777. doi: 10.1155/2020/8847777.
Torrance N, Veluchamy A, Zhou Y, et al. Trends in gabapentinoid prescribing, co-prescribing of opioids and benzodiazepines, and associated deaths in Scotland. British Journal of Anaesthesia. 2020;125(2):159-167. doi:10.1016/j.bja.2020.05.017
Hardman MI, Hagedorn JM. Perioperative spinal cord stimulation management: a clinical scenario of device loss and recommendations for anesthesiologists. Pain Medicine (Malden, Mass). 2020;2020 Feb 10.
June 17, 2019: Australia's peak pain organisations for health professionals welcome national pain management plan
Related courses
ANZCA Educators Program
The ANZCA Educators Program is designed to equip clinicians involved in ANZCA and FPM training with the skills and knowledge to facilitate learning in their daily role.
FPM Better Pain Management program
The FPM Better Pain Management program consists of twelve online education modules that have been designed for specialist and general medical practitioners, medical students, nurses and allied health practitioners engaged in the care of patients with persistent pain.
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