Clinical Pain Management A Practical Guide

by Lynch, Mary E.; Craig, Kenneth D.; Peng, Philip H.

• ISBN13: 9781444330694
• ISBN10: 1444330691
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-12-06
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Clinical Pain Management takes a practical, interdisciplinary approach to the assessment and management of pain. Concise template chapters serve as a quick reference to physicians, anesthetists and neurologists, as well as other specialists, generalists, and trainees managing pain. Based on the International Association for the Study of Pain's clinical curriculum on the topic, this reference provides to-the-point best-practice guidance in an easy-to-follow layout including tables, bullets, algorithms and guidelines.

Author Biography

Mary E Lynch, MD FRCPC, Professor, Departments Psychiatry, Anesthesiology and Pharmacology, Dalhousie University, Director Pain Management Unit, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Center, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Kenneth D Craig, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Senior Investigator, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Philip WH Peng, MBBS FRCPC, Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesia, University of Toronto; Director, Chronic Pain Program, Department of Anesthesia, University Health Network Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Table of Contents

Basic Understanding of Pain Medicine

The challenge of pain: A multidimensional phenomenon

Epidemiology and Economics of chronic and recurrent pain

Basic Mechanisms and Pathophysiology

Psychosocial Perspectives on Chronic Pain

Identification of Risk and Protective Factors in the Transition from Acute to Chronic Post Surgical Pain

Placebo/Nocebo: a two-sided coin in the clinician's hand

Assessment of Pain

Clinical Assessment in Adult Patients

Measurement and Assessment of Pain in Pediatric Patients

Laboratory Investigations, Imaging, and Neurological Assessment in Pain Management

Psychological Assessment

Management

Introduction

Managing Chronic Pain in Primary Care

Pharmacotherapy

Nutrition and Pain Management: Dietary Soy as An Analgesic Modality

Pharmacotherapy: Antidepressant analgesics in the management of chronic pain

Anticonvulsants in the management of chronic pain

Opioids

Topical analgesics

Other pharmacological agents

Interventional

Diagnostic and therapeutic blocks

Neuromodulation therapy

Physical therapy and Rehabilitation

Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation

Psychological

Pain Self-Management: Theory and Process for Clinicians

Psychological Interventions: Cognitive Behavioural and Stress Management Approaches

Pain catastrophizing and fear of movement:Detection and Intervention

Complimentary Therapies

Complementary and Alternative Medicines

Specific Clinical States

Chronic Low Back Pain

Fibromyalgia syndrome and myofascial pain syndromes

Clinical Pain Management in The Rheumatic Diseases

Headache

Orofacial Pain

Visceral Pain

Pelvic and Urogenital Pain

Neuropathic Pain

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

Cancer Pain management

Special population

Pain in Older Persons: A Brief Clinical Guide

Pain in Children

Pain in Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities

Pain and Addiction

Pain and Psychiatric Illness

Neurosurgical management of Pain

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