This page contains (links in title):
BJA education articles
Recent guidelines, key websites and resources
Information for anaesthetists interested in the FFPMRCA (Fellowship of the Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Royal College of Anaesthetists)
BJA education articles
Last 5 years of BJA Ed/ATOTW Articles (A-Z)
Pain physiology
pain pharmacology
- Pharmacotherapy of neuropathic pain
- Cox-2 inhibitors
- Treatment of chronic pain – antidepressant, anti epileptic and anti arrhythmic drugs
- Ketamine
- Magnesium and the anaesthetist
- Non opioid based adjuvant analgesia
acute pain
- Acute pain anatomy and physiology 1
- Acute pain assessment and management 2
- Transition between acute to chronic pain
- Pain in the patient with burns
- Analgesia in ICU 1
- Analgesia in ICU 2
- Pain after amputation
- Pain management in elderly trauma patients
chronic pain
- Pain management programmes
- Common functional pain syndromes
- Chronic back pain
- Assessment of neuropathic pain
- Chronic post surgical pain
- Spinal cord injury and chronic pain
- Spinal cord stimulation
- Low back pain and radicular pain – British Pain Society guideline
- Radiofrequency therapies in chronic pain
- Neuropathic pain
- Phantom limb pain
Opioids
- Pain management of the opioid tolerant patient
- Intrathecal opioids
- Opioids for non cancer pain
- Transdermal drug delivery
paediatric pain
- Complex pain management in children and young people 1
- Complex pain management in children and young people 2
- Pain management in infants
- Epidural analgesia for children
- Paediatric caudal anaesthesia
- Paediatric sedation
- Anaesthetic management of children with sickle cell disease
- Paediatric pain
Cancer pain
Recent guidelines or key articles
Key websites:
- Faculty of Pain Medicine website
- The FPM have also produced a number of useful leaflets for patients here.
- Opioids Aware site
- The British Pain Society have produced some excellent e-learning materials on pain, packaged into their ‘E-Pain’ module.
- The Oxford Pain guidelines developed by Dr Jane Quinlan and the acute pain team in the Microguide app are excellent and great for anyone caring for patients with pain at most levels, is free of access and a useful portable resource.
- Opioid conversion tables by FPM
Key guidelines:
- Association of Paediatric anaesthetists have produced a 2012 guideline on good practice for paediatric pain
- BPS 2020 Spinal interventional procedures for pain management
- BPS 2018 Assessment of pain in older people
- BPS 2015 Intrathecal drug delivery
- BPS 2013 Pain management programme guidelines
- NICE guidelines analgesia for mild to moderate pain updated 2015
- NICE guidelines neuropathic and persistent pain updated 2019
- NICE guidelines chronic pain 2019 (further guidelines expected 2021)
- NICE guidelines palliative care for adults 2016
- NICE guidelines on safe prescribing and withdrawal of drugs associated with dependence and withdrawal anticipated Nov 2021
FFPMRCA exam
- Official FFPMRCA website
- Page 18-19 of this document details a trainee’s experience in revising for the FFPMRCA exam and a list of useful textbooks and resources.
- This document details a breakdown of the FFPMRCA curriculum
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