Abstract
C l i n M e d International Library Citation: Nguyen DD, Solanki D, Babl C, Gravenstein N, Przkora R (2015) Perceptions and Attitudes of Anesthesiologists toward Pain Management: A Survey of Pain Categories. Int J Anesthetic Anesthesiol 2:030 Received: May 11, 2015: Accepted: May 28, 2015: Published: May 30, 2015 Copyright: © 2015 Nguyen DD. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Nguyen et al. Int J Anesthetic Anesthesiol 2015, 2:2 ISSN: 2377-4630
Highlights
Pain is a global epidemic and in America is considered the fifth vital sign
Based on the duration and likely etiology of pain, we subdivided it into acute pain, which included acute post-operative pain, chronic pain, and cancer related pain
The diagnosis and treatment of pain is a key component in the education of every Anesthesiologist
Summary
Perceptions and Attitudes of Anesthesiologists toward Pain Management: A Survey of Pain Categories. We as Anesthesiologists are the first-line experts to treat postoperative pain in the hospital and ambulatory setting, but virtually all healthcare professionals encounter patients with pain. Of note, these clinicians’ education in pain medicine varies considerably. We suspected that there were differences in the types of pain Anesthesiologists are more comfortable with and prefer to treat. To explore this question, we conducted a survey to determine the similarities and differences between faculty and resident Anesthesiologists in regard to treating acute, chronic, or cancerrelated pain patients. The answer choices were defined in the survey and included: A) Post-operative Pain (pain after surgery
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