In a medicine that relies more and more on diagnostics to deal with differential diagnosis, the etiology of pain and its "life" is regaining a leading role in choosing the appropriate diagnostic technique. Multidisciplinary approach, in such a non-specific topic, is the only strategy to understand this phenomenon and to find the optimal preventive and therapeutic treatment. How can we determine the baseline pain values in patients? How can physicians identify high-risk patients? What impact does pain have on the economy of our hospital? Even today, the studies that address these problems do not find a right place and a right evaluation in the international scientific literature.
We want to underline that pain must be evaluated in surgery during all steps: tolerance level, diagnosis and treatment. We will follow a multidisciplinary path, starting from the physiology of pain to prevention, through surgery and its minimally invasive evolution. Particular attention will be paid to the evaluation of preventive intervention. In this context, drug therapies and the impact of different surgical techniques will be examined.
We are interested in the following types of manuscripts: editorial, review, mini-review, meta-analysis, original research, clinical trial, perspective.
Specific themes we would like contributors to address include:
• Physiology
• Psychometric evaluation and preventive interventions
• Preoperative preparation
• Pain therapy
• Minimally invasive treatments
In a medicine that relies more and more on diagnostics to deal with differential diagnosis, the etiology of pain and its "life" is regaining a leading role in choosing the appropriate diagnostic technique. Multidisciplinary approach, in such a non-specific topic, is the only strategy to understand this phenomenon and to find the optimal preventive and therapeutic treatment. How can we determine the baseline pain values in patients? How can physicians identify high-risk patients? What impact does pain have on the economy of our hospital? Even today, the studies that address these problems do not find a right place and a right evaluation in the international scientific literature.
We want to underline that pain must be evaluated in surgery during all steps: tolerance level, diagnosis and treatment. We will follow a multidisciplinary path, starting from the physiology of pain to prevention, through surgery and its minimally invasive evolution. Particular attention will be paid to the evaluation of preventive intervention. In this context, drug therapies and the impact of different surgical techniques will be examined.
We are interested in the following types of manuscripts: editorial, review, mini-review, meta-analysis, original research, clinical trial, perspective.
Specific themes we would like contributors to address include:
• Physiology
• Psychometric evaluation and preventive interventions
• Preoperative preparation
• Pain therapy
• Minimally invasive treatments
