Handbook of Acute Pain Management [Paperback]

Pain is a pervasive symptom present in multiple areas of medicine. It is imperative that physicians not only evaluate and diagnose the source of pain, but that they also recognize how to manage the actual pain symptoms with effective treatment. Handbook of Acute Pain Managementis an essential reference for professionals to enhance their knowledge of pain therapies.

Covering both pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic approaches to treatment, this text provides updates on the most recent developments in the management of pain. This includes information on potential drug-drug and drug-disease interactions, patient controlled analgesia devices, and the emergence of continuous catheter techniques. The text also addresses pain management issues in special populations such as pediatric, opioid tolerant, and elderly patients.

The anatomy of postoperative pain
Jun-Ming Zhang
The neurobiology of acute pain
Eugene E. Fibuch and John Q. Wang
Local anesthetics in the management of acute postoperative pain
Gary McCleane
NSAIDs in the management of acute pain
Jennifer A. Elliott, Eugene E. Fibuch, and Laura Textor
Opioids in the management of acute pain
Jennifer A. Elliott
Patient-controlled analgesia in the management of acute pain
Jennifer A. Elliott
Authorized agent controlled analgesia
Laura Textor
a2 Agonists in the management of acute pain
Jennifer A. Elliott and Howard S. Smith
Nonpharmacological modalities for the treatment of acute pain
Laura Textor
Perioperative epidural analgesia and patient-controlled epidural analgesia
Sonali Agarwal and Sudhir Diwan
Upper-extremity regional anesthetic techniques in the management of postoperative pain
James Rasinsky
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