“Optimal Pain Management includes the concepts of
preemptive analgesia, multimodal or "balanced" analgesia, as well as the
use of new and highly effective drugs and drug delivery systems. The anesthesiologist
can play a key role in initiating optimal post-surgical analgesia by incorporating
intravenous and neuraxial analgesics or neural blockade during the intraoperative
period. Anesthesiologists in their role as pain specialists can then maintain
optimal pain management throughout the postoperative period. An important
goal should be the collection of data that clearly demonstrate to patients,
surgeons, and insurance providers that improvements in pain control result
in improvements in post-surgical outcome” |
E-MAIL
rsinatra@optonline.net
ACADEMIC AFFILIATION
Department of Anesthesiology
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT
POSITION
Director, Yale University Pain Service
Yale-New Haven Hospital
AREAS OF SPECIALTY / RESEARCH
Regional Anesthesia, Obstetrical Anesthesia, Post-Surgical Pain Management,
Chronic Pain Management, Clinical Analgesic Research
DATE OF BIRTH
March 15, 1948
EDUCATION
State University of NY, Downstate Medical
Center
LATEST PUBLICATIONS
Sinatra RS, Ennevor S: Pain management following thoracic
and upper abdominal trauma. In: Rosenberg AD (Ed). Int Trauma Anesth Critical
Care Society, Baltimore (1999)
Sinatra RS, Ayoub C: Postoperative
analgesia: epidural and spinal techniques. In: Chestnut DH (Editor).Obstetric
Anesthesia: Principles and Practice. Vol. II. Mosby, St Louis, 1999
Sinatra RS, Levin S, Ocampo CA: Neuroaxial
hydromorphone for control of postsurgical, obstetric, and chronic pain.
Semin Anesth Periop Med Pain 19:108-131, 2000
Sinatra RS, Sevarino FB, Ayoub C: Postoperative
analgesia. In: Datta S, Gatt S (Editors). The International Textbook
of Obstetric Anesthesiology, Churchill Livingstone 2000
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