The Massachusetts General Hospital handbook of pain management
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The Massachusetts General Hospital handbook of pain management
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2006
3rd ed
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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 disease, and diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, plus new illustrations of procedures and techniques. All chapters include the latest evidence-based information and coverage of fibromyalgia, psychosomatic complaints, headaches, and opioid cautions has been expanded.
Tables and chapter-opening outlines enable readers to find information quickly. A drug appendix and seven other practical appendices are included.
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Table of Contents
Section I. General Considerations
Neurophysiological Basis of Pain
Gary J. Brenner
Pain Mechanisms and Their Importance in Clinical Practice and Research
Isabelle Decosterd and Clifford J. Woolf
The Placebo Effect
Eija Kalso
Section II. Diagnosis of Pain
The History and Clinical Examination
Jan Slezak and Asteghik Hacobian
Diagnostic Imaging and Pain Management
Onassis Caneris
Assessment of Pain
Alyssa LeBel
Neurophysiologic Testing in Pain Management
Annabel Edwards and Lisa Krivickas
Section III. Therapeutic Options: Pharmacologic Approaches
Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs
Steven Barna
Opioids
Jeffrey Uppington
Adjuvant Treatments
Karla Hayes
Psychopharmacology for the Pain Specialist
Daniel Rockers and Karla Hayes
Section IV. Therapeutic Options: Nonpharmacologic Approaches
Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedures in Pain Management
Milan Stojanovic
Neuromodulation Techniques for the Treatment of Pain
Milan Stojanovic
Neurosurgical Pain Management
Ramin Amirnovin, G. Rees Cosgrove, and Emad Eskandar
Psychological Assessment and Behavioral Treatment of Chronic Pain
Ronald J. Kulich and Lainie Andrew
Physical Therapy
Teresa Michel and Harriet Wittink
Physical Medicine in the Treatment of Pain
Joseph Audette
Acupuncture
May Pian-Smith
Chronic Pain Rehabilitation
Elizabeth Loder and Pat McAlary
Radiotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals for Cancer Pain
Thomas F. DeLaney
Section V. Acute Pain
Postoperative Pain in Adults
Katharine Fleischmann and Elizabeth Ryder
Postoperative Pain in Children
Lucy Chen
Pain in Burn Patients
Salahadin Abdi
Pain Management in Sickle Cell Disease
Jatinder Gill
Section VI. Chronic Pain
Neuropathic Pain Syndromes
Dennis Dey and Anne Louise Oaklander
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
Daniela Hord
Back & Neck Pain (Diagnosis)
Shihab Ahmed and James Rathmell
Back Pain (Management)
Zahid Bajwa and Thomas Simopoulos
Headache
Mike Cutrer and David Black
Facial Pain
Martin Acquadro and Alexandre DeSilva
Opioid Therapy in CNTP
Jane Ballantyne and Jianren Mao
Pain in Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Andrew Rice
Section VII. Pain Due to Cancer
Pain in Adults with Cancer
Daniela Hord and Annabel Edwards
Control of Pain in Children with Chronic and Terminal Disease
Alyssa LeBel and Karla Hayes
Palliative Medicine
J Andrew Billings
Section VIII. Special Situations
Chronic Opioid Therapy, Drug Abuse and Addiction
Jane Ballantyne and David Gastfriend
Pain and Affective Disorders
Dan Rockers and Scott Fishman
Emergencies in the Pain Clinic
Asi Hacobian and Milan Stojanovic
Drug Appendix
Del Black and Gary Brenner
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