Table of Contents:
  • Contents: Pain management continuum
  • The blood-brain barrier
  • CNS distribution of spinal and systemic analgesics
  • Selective spinal analgesia
  • Physiological rationale
  • Epidural vs. intrathecal
  • Pharmacology
  • Opioids
  • Local anesthetics - a2 adrenergic agonists
  • Ziconotide
  • Procedures