The research presented in this thesis represents both my development of the minimal
anaesthesia model and its application in a number of theoretical and applied areas of …

Pain is one of the most compelling and physiologically complex experiences of humans. It is
usually a very unpleasant sensation that defies consistent satisfactory definition. What is …

4 costs resulting from inappropriate self-medication and treatment by patients (eg costs of
treating overdoses); 5 costs of treating and preventing adverse events which arise as a …

This is a new edition of a well-respected textbook on the management of pain, and it is an
excellent resource. The quality of its production is good, and there is online access included …

First attested in English in 1297, the word pain comes from the Latin word poena, for
“punishment, penalty.” Pain is an adaptive response to protect us from our environment. The …

Theodore H. Stanley, MD Anesthesiology and Pain Management contains the Refresher
Course manuscripts of the presentations of the 36th Annual Postgraduate Course in …

This issue of the British Journal of Anaesthesia is based on the programme of a Scientific
Meeting organized by the then Faculty of Anaesthetists, in association with the Journal. On …

Abstract THE PROGRESS IN MEDICAL SCIENCE and its effect in lengthening human life in
the past hundred years has shown no greater advance than in that branch of medicine …

This is the first edition of one of the latest instalments in the popular and ever-expanding
Oxford Handbooks catalogue, though perhaps unlike some of its series counterparts, this …

One of the major problems in laboratory animal anesthesia and pain control lies in the fact
that, under many circumstances, it is difficult to ascertain adequacy of anesthesia or …