Part of the mission of the Wasser Pain Management Centre is to develop an effective and productive clinical research unit with a focus in chronic non-cancer pain management. The team is made up of recognized leaders in pain management, nationally, and internationally.

The following is a list of some of the recent papers published by members of our team.
 

2008

• Peng, P, Stinson, J. N., Choiniere, M., Dion, D., Intrater, H., LeFort, S., Lynch, M., Ong, M., Rashiq, S, Tkachuk, G., Veillete, Y., & the STOPPAIN Investigators Group. (2008). Role of health care professionals in multidisciplinary pain treatment facilities in Canada. Pain Res manage, 13(6), 484-488.
• Gourlay, D. L., & Heit, H. A. (2008). Pain and addiction: Managing risk through comprehensive care. Journal of Addictive Diseases, 27(3), 23-30.
• Heit, H. A., & Gourlay, D. L. (2008). New tricks with an old molecule for pain management. Clinical Journal of Pain, 24(2), 93-97.
• Peng, P., Tumber, P., Stafford, M., Gourlay, D., Wong, P., Galonski, M., Evans, D., & Gordon, A. (2008). Experience of methadone therapy in 100 consectutive chronic pain patients in a multidisciplinary pain center. American Academy of Pain Medicine, (In press).
• Lynch, M. E., Campbell, F. A., Clark, A. J., Dunbar, M. J., Goldstein, D., Peng, P., Stinson, J., & Tupper, H. (2008). A systematic review for the effect of waiting for treatment for chronic pain. Pain 136(2008), 97-116.
• Tumber, P.S., Bhatia A., Chan V.W. (2008). Ultrasound-guided lateral femoral cutaneous nerve block for meralgia paresthetica. Anesth Analg, 106(3):1021-2.
• Peng, P. W. H., & Farb, R. (2008). Spontaneous C1-2 CSF leak treated with high cervical epidural blood patch. Canadian Journal of Neurological Science, 35: 102-105.
• Rofaeel, A., Peng, P., Louis, I., & Chan, V.  (2008). Feasibility of real-time ultrasound for pudendal nerve block in patients with chronic perineal pain. Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, 33(2), 139-145.
• Peng, P. W. H., & Tumber, P. S.  (2008). Ultrasound-guided interventional procedures for patients with chronic pelvic pain – A description of techniques and review of literature. Pain Physician, 11: 215-224.
• Heit, H., Gourlay, D. (2008). Buprenorphine: new tricks with an old molecule for pain management. Clinical Journal of Pain, 24(2):93-7.

2007

• Assman, N., McCartney C.J.L., Tumber, P.S., Chan, V.W. (2007). Ultrasound Guidance for Brachial Plexus Localization and Catheter Insertion after Complete Forearm Amputation. Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, 32(1): 93.
• Lachaine, J., Gordon, A., Choiniere, M., Collet, J. P., Dion, D., Tarride, J. E. (2007). Painful neuropathic disorders: An analysis of the regie de l’assurance maladie du Quebec database. Pain Research Management, 12(1), 31-37.
• Stafford, M. A., Peng, P., & Hill, D. A. (2007). Sciatica: A review of history, epidemiology, pathogenesis, and the role of epidural steroid injection in management. British Journal of Anaesthesia, 99(4), 461-473.
• Gourlay, D. &  Heit, H. (2007). Risk management is everyone's business. Pain Medicine, 8(2):125-7.
• Peng, P. W. H., Fedoroff, I., Jacques, L, & Kumar, K. (2007). Survey of the practice of spinal cord stimulators and intrathecal analgesic delivery implants for management of pain in Canada. Pain Research Management, 12(4), 281-285
• Lynch, M. E., Campbell, F. A., Clark, A. J., Dunbar, M. J., Goldstein, D., Peng, P., Stinson, J., & Tupper, H. (2007). Waiting for treatment for chronic pain – A survey pf existing benchmarks: Toward establishing evidence-based benchmarks for medically acceptable waiting times. Pain Research Management, 12I(4).
• Peng, P., Choiniere, M., Dion, D., Intrater, H., Lefort, S., Lynch, M., Ong, M., Rashiq, S., Tkachuk, G., Veillette, Y. (2007). STOPPAIN Investigators Group. Challenges in accessing multidisciplinary pain treatment facilities in Canada. Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia. 54(12):977-84.
• Peng, P., Stinson, J. N., Choiniere, M., Dion, D., Intrater, H., Lefort, S., Lynch, M., Ong, M., Rashiq, S., Tkachuk, G., and Veillette, Y. (2007). Dedicated multidisciplinary pain management centres for children in Canada: The current status. Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia. 54(12):985-91.

2006

• Cone, E. J., Heit, H. A., Caplan, Y. H. & Gourlay, D. (2006). Evidence of morphine metabolism to hydromorphone in pain patients chronically treated with morphine. Journal of Analytical Toxicology. 30(1):1-5.
• Tarride, J. E., Gordon, A., Vera-Llonch, M., Dukes, E., & Rousseau, C. (2006). Cost-effectiveness of pregabalin for the management of neuropathic pain associated with diabetic peripheral neuropathy and postherpetic neuralgia: A Canadian perspective. Clin Ther, 28(11), 1922-1934.
• Tumber, P.S., Louis, I. Botulinum Toxin Type A and Human Serum Albumin. (2006). Anesthesiology 104(5): 1108.
• Gourlay, D. L., Heit, H. A., & Almahrezi,  A. (2006). Universal precautions in pain medicine: a rational approach to the treatment of chronic pain. Pain Medicine.  6(2):107-12
• Kahan, M., Srivastava, A., Wilson, L., Gourlay, D., & Midmer, D. (2006). Misuse of and dependence on opioids: study of chronic pain patients. Canadian Family Physician, 52(9):1081-7.

2005

• Peng, P. W. H., Tumber, P. S., & Gourlay, D. (2005). Review article: Perioperative pain management of patients on methadone therapy. Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, 52(5), 513-523.
• Peng, P. W. H., & Castano, E. D.  (2005). Survey of chronic pain practice by anesthesiologists in Canada. Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, 53(4), 383-389.
• Gourlay, D., & Heit, H. A. (2005). Treatment of polysubstance abuse in the active user. Pain Medicine, 5(1):109-10.
• Gourlay, D., &  Heit, H. (2005). Universal precautions: a matter of mutual trust and responsibility. Pain Medicine, 7(2):210-1