Pain Clinic Manual

by Abram, Stephen E., M.D.; Haddox, J. David; Kettler, Robert E.

• ISBN13: 9780397509362
• ISBN10: 0397509367
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1990-01-01
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Summary

The thoroughly revised, updated Second Edition of this manual is a practical, portable guide to the treatment of chronic pain. Unique in its focus on clinical decision-making, the book provides diagnostic criteria and management protocols for a wide range of painful conditions. This edition features new information on cancer pain, palliative care, fibromyalgia, and myofascial pain and includes more drug tables, algorithms, figures, and pain assessment scales. The modified outline format permits easy information retrieval.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Pain Clinic Organization and Staffing

Pain Pathways and Mechanism

Pain: The Patient's Perspective Patient

Patient Assessment

Collection of Historical Data

Physical Examination of the Patient Experiencing Pain

Psychological Assessment of Patients Experiencing Chronic Pain

The Pain-Focused Psychological Evaluation

Diagnostic and Prognostic Nerve

Treatment Methods

Pain Rehabilitation Programs

Physical Therapy in the Pain Clinic Setting

Psychological Strategies for Managing Chronic Pain

Electrical Stimulation of the Nervous System

Principles of Clinical Pharmacology

Local Anesthetic Pharmacology

Local Anesthetic Toxicity

Systemic Opioid Therapy for Non-Cancer Pain

Chronic Intrathecal Drug Delivery

Adjuvant

Management of Specific Pain Syndromes

Back Pain Radiculopathy Myofascial Pain Syndromes

Complex Regional Pain Syndromes and Sympathetically Maintained Pain Acute Herpes Zoster and Postherpetic Neuralgia

Painful Peripheral Neuropathies

Facial Pain

Headache

Chronic Pelvic Pain

Postdural Puncture Headache

Central Pain Syndromes

Management of Painful Medical Diseases

Chronic Pain in Children

Substance Abuse and

Cancer Pain Management

Oncologic Pain Management

Psychological Assessment and Treatment of Patients with Cancer Pain Palliative Care of the Terminally Ill Patient Radiation Therapy for Cancer Pain Neurolytic Blocks and Other Neuroablative Procedures for Cancer

Techniques

Epidural Steroid Injections

Sympathetic Blocks

Peripheral Nerve Blocks

Head and Neck Blocks

Appendices

Index

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