Hospital medicine (London, England : 1998)
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This is an interesting time to consider the classification of facial pain because of the emergence of new ideas that challenge our understanding of the mechanisms involved. The new hypotheses that have been proposed appear to be of clinical relevance.
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The postoperative course of a patient can be complicated by events such as pain, nausea and vomiting. These in themselves can have a significant impact upon morbidity and even survival. This article outlines key points to minimize such adverse outcomes.
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Stress in hospital medicine: a problem for key hospital staff.
Many factors which contribute to stress in the workplace apply to both consultants and ward sisters. Both groups find that their roles have become more complex while they have increasingly lost control of their own clinical and professional territory in a managerial culture. The erosion of the key relationship between consultants and ward sisters is of concern and the need for teamworking is insufficiently recognized.
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In order to provide optimum intracranial operating conditions for neurosurgery, anaesthetists must have a thorough understanding of brain physiology and how this is affected by pathology and anaesthetic drugs and techniques. This article discusses the current understanding of cerebral vascular physiology and how novel neuroanaesthetic drugs and techniques affect it.