Albert Dahan

TL;DR: The criteria for selecting analgesics for pain treatment in the elderly include, but are not limited to, overall efficacy, overall side‐effect profile, onset of action, drug interactions, abuse potential, and practical issues, such as cost and availability of the drug, as well as the severity and type of pain.

TL;DR: The clinical approach to severe opioid-induced respiratory depression is to titrate naloxone to effect and continue treatment by continuous infusion until chances for renarcotization have diminished.

TL;DR: In a population of mostly chronic CRPS‐1 patients with severe pain at baseline, a multiple day ketamine infusion resulted in significant pain relief without functional improvement.

TL;DR: These data show sex differences in morphine analgesia, with greater morphine potency but slower speed of onset and offset in women, which may explain higher postoperative opioid consumption in men relative to women.

TL;DR: Some common fundamental central pain mechanisms are introduced and how they may translate into the clinical signs and symptoms across different chronic pain conditions, how to evaluate gain and loss of function using quantitative pain assessment tools, and the implications for optimising prevention and management of pain are discussed.