Pain, according to the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated (or similar to that associated) with actual or potential tissue damage. However, not all pain experiences have a physical origin; pain has other dimensions or components that play a fundamental role in how pain is […]

In Spain there is no specific regulation regarding the roles and responsibilities of nursing in the field of Anesthesiology, and the lack of regulation makes it difficult to conceptualize these advanced practice nursing (APN) roles in the same way as in other countries, which is why, at present, they are framed in a paradigm of […]

Anesthesiology today is very different from 40 years ago, as is the nursing profession, but the organizational model has not changed much since then. New fronts have opened up in the work of anesthesiologists: the universalization of major outpatient surgery programs, the pre-anesthetic assessment of all patients, the Acute Pain Units (inpatient care of postoperative […]