Acute Pain Management - guidelines and evidence

The third edition of the ANZ College of Anaesthetists and Faculty of Pain Medicine's guidelines, Acute Pain Management : scientific evidence, has just been published by the NHMRC. It summarises the evidence currently available to assist health professionals in the management of acute pain. "The aim of the document is, as with the first two editions, to combine a review of the best available evidence for acute pain management with current clinical and expert practice, rather than to formulate specific clinical practice recommendations."

Also published by the NHMRC in 2006 was Managing acute pain : a guide for patients, which remains the current edition and accompanies the guidelines.