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  • Pain and Analgesia
    • Understanding pain
      • What is pain?
      • What is nociception?
      • What is sensitisation?
      • Sociopsychobiomedical (biopsychosocial) understanding of pain
      • Time-based descriptors of pain
      • Pain types
      • Interpreting responses to pain management techniques in clinical trials and individuals
      • References
        • Key references: What is pain?
        • Key references: What is nociception?
        • Key references: What is sensitisation?
        • Key references: Time-based descriptors of pain
        • Key references: Pain types
        • Key references: Interpreting responses to pain management techniques in clinical trials and individuals
        • Key references: Placebo effects in pain
        • Key references: Interpreting the number needed to treat for analgesia
    • Assessing a patient with pain
    • General principles of acute pain management
    • Nonpharmacological management of acute pain
    • Pharmacological management of acute pain
    • Pain management in specific populations
    • Procedural sedation and analgesia
    • The transition from acute to chronic pain
    • General principles of chronic pain management
    • Psychological techniques for managing pain
    • Physical activity and managing chronic pain
    • Social connection and chronic pain
    • The role of analgesics in chronic noncancer pain
    • Invasive procedures to manage chronic pain
    • Managing specific pain syndromes
    • Drugs used for pain

Key references: What is sensitisation?

  • International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP). IASP terminology [online]. Washington, D.C.: IASP; Last updated December 14, 2017. https://www.iasp-pain.org/terminology
  • Woolf CJ. Central sensitization: implications for the diagnosis and treatment of pain. Pain 2011;152(3 Suppl):S2–15. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20961685
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