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British Journal of Anaesthesia 2008 101(1):1-4; doi:10.1093/bja/aen120
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Pain medicine: advances in basic sciences and clinical practice

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The meeting from which this issue stems celebrates advances made in ‘pain science’ translating to practice in man and the birth of The Faculty of Pain Medicine of The Royal College of Anaesthetists. With some imagination, it could be argued that the programme for a meeting such as this was set almost 350 yr ago by the philosopher and mathematician Rene' Descartes who described human pain as ‘Fast moving particles of fire ... the disturbance passes along the nerve filament until it reaches the brain ... Descartes (1664).’ The 2008 meeting contained some excellent presentations covering: the sensing of pain (fast moving particles of fire), spinal processing/neuropathic pain (disturbance passes along the nerve filament), central processing (reaches the brain), and pain medicine/management (an extension of which Descartes would no doubt approve).

Pain causes significant . . . [Full Text of this Article]

L. A. Colvin1 and D. G. Lambert2,*

1 Department of Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine
University of Edinburgh
Western General Hospital
Crewe Road Edinburgh EH4 2XU UK
2 Department of Cardiovascular Sciences (Pharmacology and Therapeutics Group)
Division of Anaesthesia Critical Care and Pain Management
University of Leicester
Leicester Royal Infirmary Leicester LE1 5WW UK

* E-mail: dgl3@le.ac.uk


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