Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Pain Management.
The Third Edition of this highly popular pocket guide presents the state-of-the-art approaches to pain management that are currently taught and practiced at the Massachusetts General Hospital. This edition has new chapters on chronic back pain, pain control in children with chronic and terminal dise...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Wolters Kluwer,
2005.
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
| Series: | Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Handbook.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- ""The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Pain Management""; ""Contents""; ""Contributing Authors""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Definitions and Abbreviations""; ""General Considerations""; ""Neurophysiologic Basis of Pain""; ""Pain Mechanisms and Their Importance in Clinical Practice and Research""; ""The Placebo Effect""; ""Diagnosis of Pain""; ""The History and Clinical Examination""; ""Diagnostic Imaging and Pain Management""; ""Assessment of Pain""; ""Neurophysiologic Testing in Pain Management""; ""Therapeutic Options: Pharmacologic Approaches""
- ""Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory Drugs""""Opioids""; ""Adjuvant Treatments""; ""Psychopharmacology for the Pain Specialist""; ""Therapeutic Options: Nonpharmacologic Approaches""; ""Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedures in Pain Management""; ""Neuromodulation Techniques for the Treatment of Pain""; ""Neurosurgical Pain Management""; ""Psychological Assessment and Behavioral Treatment of Chronic Pain""; ""Physical Therapy""; ""Physiatric Treatment of Pain""; ""Acupuncture""; ""Chronic Pain Rehabilitation""; ""Radiotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals for Cancer Pain""; ""Acute Pain""
- ""Postoperative Pain in Adults""""Postoperative Pain in Children""; ""Pain in Burn Patients""; ""Pain Management in Sickle Cell Disease""; ""Chronic Pain""; ""Neuropathic Pain Syndromes""; ""Complex Regional Pain Syndrome""; ""Low Back Pain""; ""Headache""; ""Orofacial Pain""; ""Opioids in Chronic Nonterminal Pain""; ""Pain in Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome""; ""Pain Due to Cancer""; ""Pain in Adults with Cancer""; ""Control of Pain in Children with Chronic and Terminal Disease""; ""Palliative Medicine""; ""Special Situations""
- ""Long-term Opioid Therapy, Drug Abuse, and Addiction""""Pain and Affective Disorders""; ""Emergencies in the Pain Clinic""; ""Appendix I Dermatomes and Nerve Distribution""; ""Appendix II Useful Addresses and Websites""; ""Appendix III Standards of Treatment: The American Pain Society�s Quality Assurance Standards for Relief of Acute and Cancer Pain""; ""Appendix IV Massachusetts General Hospital Pain Center Guidelines on Prescribing Controlled Substances for Patients with Nonmalignant Chronic Disease""; ""Appendix V Drug Enforcement Administration Prescription Guidelines""
- ""Appendix VI U.S. Food and Drug Administration State Drug Schedules""""Appendix VII Drugs Commonly Used in Pain Practice""; ""Subject Index""