Acute pain service : an Egyptian model
Author
Source
Ain Shams Journal of Anesthesiology
Issue
Vol. 6, Issue 2 (30 May. 2013), pp.107-119, 13 p.
Publisher
Ain Shams University Faculty of Medicine Department of Anesthesiology
Publication Date
2013-05-30
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
13
Main Subjects
Topics
Abstract EN
It is becoming increasingly clear that the solution to the problem of postoperative pain management lies not so much in the development of new techniques as in the development of an organization to manipulate existing expertise based on team approach.
Such acute pain service is part of a strategy to decrease perioperative morbidity and reduce healthcare costs.
The American model of acute pain service is anaesthesiologist based in order to provide highquality analgesia through expensive high-tech pain management.
In contrast, the European model encourages a cheaper nurse-based anaesthesiologist-supervised approach.
For over a decade I have been under the strong belief that efforts are needed in Egypt to design an appropriate service for acute pain for postoperative surgical patients on the basis of sound scientific foundation.
The present review suggests an organization model that addresses the difficult equation in Egypt, being a developing or rather a poor country with limited financial resources, lacking a wide base of algologists and high-tech nursing staff and having hospitals that are mostly multispeciality in nature.
Such an Egyptian organization model for acute pain service may open the door to other African and Mediterranean pain authorities, with similar difficult equations, to introduce their own organizational models.
Guided by the International Association for the Study of Pain, the interaction of these models might push to light a Third World Acute Pain Service model side-by-side with the now-available American and European models.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Mumin, M. Izzat. 2013. Acute pain service : an Egyptian model. Ain Shams Journal of Anesthesiology،Vol. 6, no. 2, pp.107-119.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-651755
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Mumin, M. Izzat. Acute pain service : an Egyptian model. Ain Shams Journal of Anesthesiology Vol. 6, no. 2 (May. 2013), pp.107-119.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-651755
American Medical Association (AMA)
Mumin, M. Izzat. Acute pain service : an Egyptian model. Ain Shams Journal of Anesthesiology. 2013. Vol. 6, no. 2, pp.107-119.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-651755
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 118-119
Record ID
BIM-651755