Clinical Pain Management : Acute Pain

by Pamela Macintyre, David Rowbotham, Suellen Walker

Overview

Acute Pain brings coverage of this diverse area together in a single comprehensive clinical reference, from the basic mechanisms underlying the development of acute pain, to the various treatments that can be applied to control it in different clinical settings. Much expanded in this second edition, the volume reflects the huge advances that contin

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429586149
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	09/26/2008
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	632
File size:	15 MB
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About the Author

Pamela E Macintyre Consultant Anaesthetist; and Director, Acute Pain Service Department of Anaesthesia, Pain Medicine and Hyperbaric Medicine Royal Adelaide Hospital and University of Adelaide Adelaide, Australia

Suellen M Walker Clinical Senior Lecturer in Paediatric Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, UCL Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust, London, UK

David J Rowbotham Professor of Anaesthesia and Pain Management; and Head, Clinical Division of Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Management, University of Leicester,

Table of Contents

PART 1 GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS 1a Applied physiology of nociception - Pierre Beaulieu 1b Mechanisms of inflammatory hyperalgesia - Suellen M Walker 2 Developmental neurobiology of nociception - Suellen M Walker 3 Clinical pharmacology: opioids - David J Rowbotham, Alcira Serrano-Gomez and Anne Heffernan 4 Clinical pharmacology: Traditional NSAIDs and selective COX-2 inhibitors - Stephen F Jones and Aidan M Oa Donnell 5 Clinical pharmacology: paracetamol and compound analgesics - Phil Wiffen 6 Clinical pharmacology: other adjuvants - Evangelos Tziavrangos and Stephan A Schug 7 Clinical pharmacology: local anesthetics - Jonathan McGhie and Michael G Serpell 8 Assessment, measurement and history - David A Scott and Wendy M McDonald 9 Preventive analgesia and beyond: current status, evidence, and future directions - Joel Katz PART 2 MANAGEMENT - TECHNIQUES 10 Routes of administration - Jeremy Cashman 11 Patient-controlled analgesia - Pamela E Macintyre and Julia Coldrey 12 Continuous peripheral neural blockade for acute pain - Kim E Russon and William Harrop-Griffiths 13 Epidural and spinal analgesia - Sina Grape and Stephan A Schug 14 Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) and acupuncture for acute pain - Mark I Johnson, Stephen Oxberry and Karen H Simpson 15 Psychological therapies - adults - H Clare Daniel 16 Psychological interventions for acute pediatric pain - Christina Liossi and Linda S Franck PART 3 MANAGEMENT a CLINICAL SITUATIONS 17 Postoperative pain management following day surgery - Girish P Joshi 18 Acute pain management in the intensive care unit - R Scott Simpson 19 Acute pain management in the emergency department - Anne-Maree Kelly