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Contents
Section One 1
1 Pain as a Physiological Process 3
2 Assessment of the Patient with Pain 24
3 Pharmacology of Pain Relief 37
Section Two 63
4 Management of Acute Pain: Principles and Practice 65
5 Acute Pain: Special Situations 96
6 Acute Back Pain and Sciatica 132
Index 253
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List of Figures
This book was written in response to a request by trainee based. Sufficient basic information on drug-based therapy
anaesthetists about what they could read about pain that and some of the commonly performed injection techniques
would give them the core knowledge required for their train- with which an anaesthetist may wish to become familiar is
ing. All anaesthetists need a working knowledge of pain relief provided, but more complex techniques and the details of
in postoperative care, with information about developments physical and psychologically based pain management will
in analgesic drugs and the means by which they are adminis- require further training to gain practical expertise.
tered in particular situations. In addition, many anaesthetists We hope that anaesthetists of all grades will find this a
become involved in the management of chronic pain and pal- useful source of information on the management of pain
liative care; if not always personally involved with the continu- and that other professional groups will find it a helpful guide
ing management of these problems, then at least through their to the field of pain and its treatment.
anaesthetic management of patients who are receiving treat-
ment for chronic pain. It is important that these anaesthetists, Stephen Coniam
as well as other physicians and paramedical professionals who Janine Mendham
deal with such patients, have a basic understanding of the med- Bristol
ical, physical and psychological approaches to management of March 2005
these patients.
This book aims to provide an overall view of pain, both
acute and chronic, and the ideas upon which treatment is
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Acknowledgements
Line illustrations contributed by Rose Marriott RGN, Pain Clinic Sister to the Frenchay Hospital Pain Clinic.
We would also like to thank Dr Nicholas Ambler for his help with ‘Psychological Aspects of Pain
Management’ and Nicola Mackey RGN, Acute Pain Sister, for her help with the ‘Management of Acute Pain’.
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Introduction: Pain, Anaesthetists and
Pain Teams
Pain is an almost universal human experience. There is the commonest manifestations of disease and trauma, the relief
surely almost no being in the history of humankind who of pain became a major aim of medical and allied practitioners,
could claim to have never experienced some pain, and yet its with drugs such as opium, cannabis and alcohol being used for
nature and its meaning often defy description and under- many centuries. However, in the late nineteenth century, med-
standing. Pain is a personal experience and we have no icine was developing as a science and theory of disease related
absolute means of comparing one person’s pain experience to specific pathology became important. Pain as a symptom of
with that of another. To be in pain is generally understood to disease appeared to be a less important target for medicine and
be an unpleasant state, and yet this is not always agreed. Pain the palliation of pain became subsidiary to medical manage-
may be one aspect of suffering, but may be accompanied by ment of the disease. At the same time, anaesthesia became a
other factors: emotions such as distress, despair and anger, as developing area of medicine, and the prime aim of anaesthesia
well as dysfunction and disability, which make up the fuller was to relieve the pain of surgery.
picture of human suffering. Anaesthetists increasingly had a role to play in pain relief as
Acute pain is so often temporally connected with injury or this expanded into the postoperative and post-trauma peri-
the onset of disease that most people regard pain as part of ods. In the mid twentieth century, pain relief was still mainly
that injury or disease process. They may not understand the concerned with acute pain, and the treatment of cancer was
physiological mechanisms behind that sensation of pain, but mainly disease rather than symptom orientated. In the latter
they feel that they understand the reason for the pain. there was a movement for the symptomatic palliation of pain
Cutting, crushing, burning or puncturing of the body’s in cancer patients, and the hospice movement and the devel-
structure produces pain. We like to think that all biological opment of palliative care as a specialty were able to develop
processes have evolved for a specific function and we can the long-term management of pain in disease. Following the
rationalize the production of this sensation which we call second world war a few pioneering surgical practitioners real-
pain as a highly developed protective mechanism. Injury pro- ized that there was an enormous number of injured people
duces pain so that we try to avoid injury or repeating injuri- who continued to suffer from pain despite the fact that their
ous activity. Pain prevents mobility and so could be seen as wounds had healed, and tried to develop techniques of deal-
an evolved behaviour to allow injured limbs to be rested and ing with this chronic pain.
heal. It has always been more difficult to explain why some- Attempts to deal with cancer pain or post-trauma pain
times pain persists long after the injury has healed, or even often relied on nerve blocking techniques, following the
arises when there is no clear injury. belief that if a body structure was painful, then it was neces-
Human beings have always been concerned with trying to sary to destroy its nerve supply to relieve the pain. Many of
relieve pain, or in some situations inflict pain on others. In one these attempts to treat pain were therefore delegated to
form or another it has been one of the forces which have anaesthetists who were seen to be good at performing nerve
shaped our development. Primitive societies may have associ- blocks. Some anaesthetists managed to reserve a little time
ated pain with evil forces and tried to harness magical powers between their duties in the operating theatre to see patients
to control pain. Gradually societies have discovered physical with chronic pain problems and if possible to offer some
interventions or medicines which have some effect on the form of intervention. The need for this service was gradually
sensation of pain. The use of stimulation techniques such as accepted by the health service, and eventually separate pro-
acupuncture, or numerous animal, vegetable and mineral vision was made for pain relief services through outpatient
derivatives as medicines have at times achieved moderate clinics, inpatient treatment and consultation services. The
success in the search for effective pain control. As pain is one of increasing understanding of the physiology, pathology and
xvi Introduction
psychology of pain resulted in an expansion of chronic pain pain control and recommended improvements. These included
management from a nerve block service to a more multidis- the identification of individuals or teams with a special respon-
ciplinary service exploring the broader use of medication, sibility for monitoring postoperative pain control, applying
psychological techniques and physical rehabilitation in the effective means of pain control, and educating nursing and
long-term management of pain. This has developed a wider surgical colleagues directly involved with the postoperative
communication between different specialties in an attempt care of patients. At about the same time reports appeared
to move from an anaesthetist-orientated service to multidi- from America and later from the UK and Australia, describ-
mensional management of the chronic pain sufferer. It is ing the use of an ‘acute pain team’ in hospitals who fulfilled
common for the practitioner trained in anaesthesia to act as these roles. The concept has been developed to include most
a coordinator, bringing together the different aspects of acute hospitals in the UK with improvements in the pain
management of chronic pain, as well as providing some of management of postoperative patients. The pain team may
the medical interventions that may be appropriate. consist of one anaesthetist or nurse – alone, together or in
The management of acute pain has perhaps surprisingly combination with other healthcare staff to provide a daily
been slow to evolve over the past decade and a half. Anaes- supervision of pain relief techniques in the hospital, monitor
thetists have usually tried to have some input into the post- efficacy and provide support and advice for other staff on
operative control of pain, but this has often been poorly wards. The closer attention to and monitoring of pain relief
organized and unable to provide any continuity of care or has improved the quality of patient care even when using
feedback of response. A report commissioned jointly by the pain relief techniques that have long been available but have
Royal College of Anaesthetists and the Royal College of not been used for maximum benefit.
Surgeons in 1989 considered the poor state of postoperative
Abbreviations Used in this Book
Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience activated by nociceptors. These generate the withdrawal
associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or reflex so both the sensation of physiological pain and the
described in terms of such damage. flexion withdrawal reflex occur together to protect the body
International Association for the Study of Pain (1979) from a potentially hostile environment. The frequent sensa-
tion of pain and the withdrawal reflex produce learning
behaviour.
INTRODUCTION Acute pain results from tissue injury or inflammation.
Thus, although tissue injury has already occurred, pain aids
The word pain is derived from the Latin poena meaning healing because it tells us to rest. The injured area and sur-
‘punishment’ from the ancient belief that pain results from rounding tissue are hypersensitive to all stimuli so contact
some kind of retribution. What is pain? It is difficult to define, with external stimuli is avoided.
ranging from a mild intermittent irritation to severe contin- Some people are born without a sense of pain (congenital
uous pain. It is accompanied by emotional and autonomic insensitivity to pain). Some people are unable to feel pain
events and produces a wide range of responses among individ- whereas others may feel pain but lack the affective response
uals. The definition of pain applies to acute pain, cancer pain that accompanies pain. When the normal response to pain is
and chronic non-cancer pain. impaired, many injuries, such as broken bones, are incurred
and treatment is often delayed or inadequate. These people
Acute pain may develop pressure sores, damaged joints or missing and
damaged fingers, and they usually die young.
The International Association for the Study of Pain defines
acute pain as ‘pain of recent onset and probable limited dur-
ation’. It usually has an identifiable temporal and causal rela-
tionship to injury or disease.
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