There is an art and science to performing mouse anesthesia, which is a significant
component to animal research. Frequently, anesthesia is one vital step of many over the …

Peripheral tissue damage or nerve injury often leads to pathological pain processes, such
as spontaneous pain, hyperalgesia and allodynia, that persist for years or decades after all …

Introduction Worldwide, more than 20 million patients undergo groin hernia repair annually.
The many different approaches, treatment indications and a significant array of techniques …

THE concept of preemptive analgesia to reduce the magnitude and duration of
postoperative pain was paved in 1983 by Woolf, 1 who showed evidence for a central …

IMPLICATIONS: This meta-analysis assesses the ability of preemptive analgesic
interventions to attenuate postoperative pain scores, decrease supplemental postoperative …

Pain from surgical procedures occurs as a consequence of tissue trauma and may result in
physical, cognitive, and emotional discomfort. Almost a century ago, researchers first …

From basic science to various anesthesia techniques to complications, the meticulously
updated, fifth edition of Chestnut's Obstetric Anesthesia: Principles and Practice, covers all …

Given the expanding role of ambulatory surgery and the need to facilitate an earlier hospital
discharge, improving postoperative pain control has become an increasingly important issue …

In describing how patients feel after surgery, Armitage (1) stated that “slapping the patient on
the face and telling him or her that it's all over is a complete inversion of the truth” because …

The traditional specificity theory of pain perception holds that pain involves a direct
transmission system from somatic receptors to the brain. The amount of pain perceived …