Clinical Pain Management Second Edition: Cancer Pain

by Bennet,Michael

• ISBN13: 9780340940075
• ISBN10: 0340940077
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-26
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

Now divided into four parts, the second edition of Cancer Pain delivers broad coverage of the issues that arise in the management of malignancy-related pain, from basic science, through end of life care and associated ethical issues, to therapies, both medical and complementary. Part Onereviews basis considerations in cancer pain management, including epidemiology, pharmacology, history-taking and patient evaluation and teamworking. Part Two brings together the drug therapies for cancer pain, their underlying basis, and potential side-effects. Part Three covers the non-drugtherapies, including nerve blocks, stimulation-induced analgesia, radiotherapy, complementary therapies and psychological interventions. The control of symptoms other than pain, so critical to cancer patients, is also considered here. Part Four describes special situations. Cancer pain management inchildren and older patients, and in the community setting, and pain in the dying patient and the cancer survivor are all covered here.

Table of Contents

General Considerations

Pathophysiology of somatic, visceral and neuropathic cancer pain

Epidemiology of cancer pain

Cancer pain syndromes

History and clinical examination of the cancer pain patient: assessment and measurement

Psychological evaluation of patient and family

The role of the nonprofessional caregiver in cancer pain management

Teamworking in cancer pain management

Barriers to cancer pain relief: an international perspective on drug availability and service delivery

Ethical issues in cancer pain management

Drug Therapies for Cancer Pain

Clinical pharmacology: principles of analgesic drug management

Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics: non-opioids

Clinical pharmacology of opioids: basic pharmacology

Clinical pharmacology of opioids: opioid switching and genetic basis for variability in opioid sensitivity

Clinical pharmacology of opioids: adverse effects of opioids

Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics: drugs for neuropathic pain in cancer

Control of procedure-related pain

Non-drug Therapies for Cancer Pain

Nerve blocks: chemical and physical neurolytic agents

Stimulation-induced analgesia

Radiotherapy

Management of bone pain

Complementary therapies

Management of breakthrough pain

Psychological interventions in cancer pain management

Control of symptoms other than pain

Clinical Management of Pain in Special Situations

Pediatric cancer pain

Cancer pain in older people

Cancer pain management in the context of substance abuse

Pain in the dying person

Pain in cancer survivors

Cancer pain management in the community setting

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