[Ambulatory pain therapy in penetrating rectal cancer via epidural anesthesia]. / Ambulante Schmerztherapie. Behandlung bei penetrierendem Rektum-Karzinom mittels Periduralkatheter.

Treatment of cancer pain includes invasive techniques of pain therapy if necessary. Here we report the management of a 55-year-old female patient with penetrating rectal cancer using continuous lumbal epidural anesthesia. After placement and dose-finding our patient was discharged from hospital and further treatment occurred at home.

[Implementation of a web based software for documentation and control of quality of an acute pain service]. / Die webbasierte Software im Akutschmerzdienst - Implementierung, Dokumentation und Qualitätskontrolle.

Providing an acute pain service means accumulation of a large amount of data. The alleviation of data collection, improvement of data quality and data analysis plays a pivotal role. The electronic medical record (EMR) is gaining more and more importance in this context and is continuously spreading in clinical practice. Up to now only a few commercial softwares are available that specifically fit to the needs of an acute pain service. Here we report the development and implementation of such a program (Schmerzvisite, Medlinq, Hamburg, Germany) in the acute pain service of a University Hospital.