Controversies in perioperative medicine; “is pain the fifth vital sign”?
What is ‘the morpheus consortium’? What’s the current thinking on pain management and the ‘opioid crisis’? On reflection were people wrong to emphasise the message that ‘pain is the fifth vital sign’? How did ‘pain management’ instead become ‘opioid management’? The UK has had a slightly different ride to the US in this respect,…