What are you going to do when you are asked to see a patient in pain?! What drug will you give? What if it doesn't work??! Help is at hand...
Ben Baker and Tom Heinink discuss the WHO pain ladder in this audio podcast. They discuss all you'll need to know to manage post operative pain and pain in patients presenting as emergencies to surgery in a logical and stepwise manner, using the World Health Organisation ladder as a model.
This podcast is essential listening for medical students coming up to finals, foundation doctors (interns) and core trainees (residents), as well as for those wanting to update their knowledge in th field which affects all patients coming to surgery.
Ben Baker is a Academic Foundation Year 2 doctor at the Royal Derby Hospital, and Tom Heinink is a speciality registrar in anaesthesia in the East Midlands of the UK, currently doing research with the University of Nottingham.