Full Description
The first clinically focused text dedicated to the newly emerging area of pain medicine known as opioid-induced hyperalgesia (OIH), Opioid-Induced Hyperalgesia provides pain specialists, anesthesiologists, and neurologists with the most current, cutting-edge research and therapeutic options for treating OIH patients. It supplies best practice guidelines for the effective assessment, diagnosis, and management of OIH—need-to-know information clinicians trust and can use in their practice.
Organized to provide the information quickly and easily, the book includes dosage recommendations to help minimize the likelihood and/or delay onset of hyperglasia and covers management approaches such as opioid rotation and tapering, provide clinicians with alternative methods for treating OIH's difficult, persistent, and varied problems.
Contents
Overview on Opioid-Induced Hyperalgesia. Cellular Mechanisms Underlying Morphine Analgesic Tolerance and Hyperalgesia. Overview on Clinical Features of Opioid-Induced Hyperalgesia. Clinical Assessment Tools: Quantitative Sensory Testing. Opioid Tolerance, Dependence, and Hyperalgesia. Challenging Clinical Issues on the Interaction Between Addiction and Hyperalgesia. Practical Management of Opioid-Induced Hyperalgesia in the Primary Care Setting. Managing Opioid-Induced Hyperalgesia in the Perioperative Period. Role of Ketamine in Managing Opioid-InducedHyperalgesia. Role of Opioid Rotation and Tapering in Managing Opioid-Induced Hyperalgesia. Clinical Implications of Opioid-Induced Hyperalgesia.
