| Popis: |
It is difficult to predict precisely what direction pain therapy will take in the future but based on developments of the past decade or so, I am confident that a progressively increasing number of persons with acute pain, cancer pain, and nonmalignant chronic pain will be effectively managed. The bases of this optimism are the marked advances made in pain research and pain therapy during the past 10–15 years. To appreciate the magnitude of these developments, let me give a brief overview of the status of pain therapy prior to the mid 1970s. Today you have heard a remarkable amount of new information on the peripheral and central mechanisms on nociception and pain and the basic mechanisms including the anatomic and biochemical substrates of pain modulation. In the next three days presentations will be made of the application of this new knowledge and technology to the management of acute postoperative and posttraumatic pain, cancer pain and nonmalignant chronic pain syndromes. |
