MAC Anesthesia with chronic pain pts

I was wondering since my interest is in chronic pain. Does the presence of chronic pain change the way an anesthesiologist treats the pt? Especially with MAC anesthesia when the pt is awake and sometimes the procedure would appear that the pt only needs local anesthetic, but because of comorbidities (ie, chronic pain) would make the procedure not tolerable? As I am doing chronic pain research now, in a lot of pain conditions, the pain becomes... MAC Anesthesia with chronic pain pts
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