Learning | Chronic pain

Identifying and managing sarcoidosis

Sarcoidosis is a complex immunological disorder that requires careful management and vigilant monitoring.…

Optimising therapy for inflammatory bowel disease

How to tailor treatment for patients and ensure optimum management of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.…

Acute management and prevention of gout

Ways to treat this painful condition that affects almost 900,000 people in the UK and how lifestyle changes can prevent further attacks.…

Thermotherapy and cryotherapy

Hot and cold therapies are widely used to treat muscle pain and sports injuries. Help your patients choose the right treatment option with our essential guide…

Ever heard of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome?

One in 5,000 people has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome — at least twice the number as have sickle cell anaemia, phenylketonuria or haemophilia A. Learn more about it here…

Managing post-operative pain through giving patients control

In the ninth article of a series on peri-operative medication, Mohamed H. Rahman and Jane Beattie give an overview of varioustechniques used in managing post-operative pain, including patient-controlled analgesia and peripheral nerve blocks, and monitoringrequirements…

Managing post-operative pain

In the eighth article of a series on peri-operative care, Mohamed H. Rahman and Jane Beattie focus on the physiology of pain and briefly describe the non-opioid and opioid analgesics used for post-operative pain relief…

Anaesthesia and surgical pain relief — the ideal general anaesthetic agent

The aim of this article is to describe the properties of the ideal anaesthetic agent, review how close today’s anaesthetic agents are to the ideal and look at the future for anaesthetic agents.…