[Ambulatory pain therapy in penetrating rectal cancer via epidural anesthesia].

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].

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.