Pain speaking - and anesthesiologists answer
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Anesthesiologists discussed advances in pain management at a recent conference. Most large teaching hospitals with a residency program in anesthesiology have pain management clinics, and most hospitals have an acute pain team and a chronic pain team. Anesthesiologists do not agree on the use of opiates to treat patients who do not have cancer or other terminal diseases. But sometimes patients disabled by chronic pain may benefit from the use of opiates to alleviate their pain. Patients with chronic pain may suffer from life-threatening depression or changes in their immune system. Pain management became a subspecialty of anesthesiology in the 1980s, and the American Board of Anesthesiology is considering certifying pain management. Research scientists are examining the physiological cause of pain and different mechanisms to control pain.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1992
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Kidney cancer
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Kidney cancer commonly known as renal cancer occurs in adults older than fifty years, with more men than women being affected, can be cured with early detection, but symptoms do not show up till the tumor grows large when it becomes difficult to treat. Diagnosis of this cancer involves a lot of tests like intravenous pyelography, arteriography apart from the usual computed tomography and scans.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2004
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Anesthesiologists Urge Safe, Ethical Practice. (Medical News & Perspectives)
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Anesthesiologists discussed ways of reducing the complications of anesthesia at the annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists. The number of deaths from anesthesia has dropped substantially since the 1970s.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2001
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