title: Pain Challenges at the End of Life - Pain and Palliative Care Collaboration.
abstract: Pain and symptom management at the end of life remains suboptimal.Pain physicians are uniquely placed to provide interventions for patients with difficult to manage pain.Interventions such as acupuncture, radiofrequency ablation, neurolysis together with regional analgesia including neuraxial techniques and spinal cordotomy may provide the patient with improved analgesia.
authors.affiliation: Consultant in Pain Medicine and Anaesthesia Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, St Mary's Hospital, Praed Street, London W2 1NY.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Platt