Full Description
This second edition of Essentials of Pain Management and Regional Anesthesia, offers an accessible and concise, yet complete, overview of today's theory and practice of pain medicine and regional anesthesia. From a review of basic considerations through local anesthetics and nerve block techniques, this book provides the reader with an excellent tool for exam review or practice of Pain Management.Organized in a concise, practical quick-reference format.All chapters are brief and easy to read quickly.Offers specific strategies for the evaluation and management of a full range of pain syndromes, including cancer pain.Features over 230 diagrams, illustrations, summary charts and tables that clarify the information and make it easy to apply.Discusses the latest drugs and therapeutic approaches, such as acupuncture.Presents the management of pain for every setting where it is practiced, including the emergency room, the critical care unit, and the pain clinic.Includes new topics such as: imaging in pain medicine, radiation safety, issues associated with the use of narcotics, intraarticular and intraperitoneal use of opioids, pain management in the emergency room and in the intensive care unit, pain management issues during pregnancy, geriatric pain, and hospice care and end-of-life issues. New chapters on interventional procedures include discography, intradiscal electrothermal coagulation (IDET), vertebroplasty, and piriformis injections. Truncal blocks and neuraxial blocks and anticoagulants are added to the section on nerve blocks. With 89 additional contributing experts.
Contents
I. BASIC CONSIDERATIONS1. Anatomy and Physiology of Somatosensory and Pain Processing2. The Neurochemistry of Somatosensory and Pain Processing3. Taxonomy: Definition of Pain Terms and Chronic Pain SyndromesII. CLINICAL EVALUATION AND DIAGNOSTIC EXAMINATIONS4. Physical Examination of the Patient with Pain5. Pain Assessment 6. Psychologic Evaluation and Testing 7. Neurophysiologic Testing for Pain 8. Anatomy, Imaging and Common Pain Generating Degenerative Pathologies of the Spine9. Determination of DisabilityIII. PHARMACOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGIC MODALITIES10. Opioid Receptors 11. Major Opioids in Pain Management12. Minor and Short-Acting Opioids13. Opioid Therapy: Adverse Effects Including Addiction14. Psychopharmacology for Pain Medicine15. Membrane Stabilizers16. Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory Drugs and COX-2 Selective Inhibitors17. Muscle Relaxants18. Drugs for the Interventional Physician: Botulinum Toxin, Steroids, Radiopaque Dye IV. THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTIONS19. Diagnostic Nerve Blocks 20. Neurosurgical Procedures for Treatment of Intractable Pain21. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Approaches to Pain Management22. Acupuncture23. Pyschological Interventions For Chronic Pain24. Substance Use Disorders and Detoxification V. PERIOPERATIVE PAIN MANAGEMENT25. Pain Management in the Emergency Department26. Preemptive Analgesia: Physiology and Clinical Studies27. Patient-Controlled Analgesia28. Intrathecal Opioid Injections for Postoperative Pain29. Epidural Opioids for Postoperative Pain 30. Intraarticular and Intraperitoneal Opioids for Postoperative Pain 31. Pediatric Postoperative Pain32. Pain Management During Pregnancy and Lactation33. Pain Management in the Critically Ill PatientVI. CHRONIC PAIN SYNDROMES34. Classification of Headache Disorders35. Migraine Headache and Cluster Headache36. Tension Type Headache, Chronic Tension Headache and Other Chronic Headache Types 37. Postdural Puncture Headache and Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension38. Cervicogenic Headache and Orofacial Pain39. An Overview of Low Back Pain Disorders40. Interlaminar Epidural Steroid Injections for Lumbosacral Radiculopathy41. Selective Nerve Root Blocks and Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injections 42. Facet Joint Pain: Facet Joint Injections and Facet Rhizotomy43. Pain Originating from the Buttock: Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction and Piriformis Syndrome44. Myofascial Pain Syndrome45. Fibromyalgia46. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS): Terminology and Pathophysiology47. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS): Diagnosis, and Treatment48. Herpes Zoster and Postherpetic Neuralgia49. Phantom Pain50. Central Pain States51. Visceral Pain and Pelvic Pain52. Sickle Cell Anemia53. Diabetic and Other Peripheral Neuropathies54. Entrapment Neuropathies55. Chronic Pain Management in Children56. Geriatric PainVII. INTERVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES FOR PAIN MANAGEMENT57. Spinal Cord Stimulation58. Implanted Drug Delivery Systems for Control of Chronic Pain59. Discography60. Intradiscal Techniques: Intradiscal Electrothermal Coagulation (IDET) and Nucleoplasty61. Osteoporosis and Percutaneous Vertebroplasty62. Issues in Fluoroscopy: Advantages of Fluoroscopy, Radiation SafetyVIII. CANCER PAIN63. Pharmacologic Management of Cancer Pain64. Management of Pain at End of Life65. Visceral Neurolytic Sympathetic Blocks66. Intrathecal and Epidural Neurolysis: Agents Used for Neurolytic BlockIX. LOCAL ANESTHETICS AND NERVE BLOCKADE67. Local Anesthetics - Clinical Aspects68. Spinal Anesthesia69. Epidural Anesthesia70. Combined Spinal-Epidural Technique71. Caudal Anesthesia72. Head and Neck Blocks73. Brachial Plexus Block: Techniques Above the Clavicle74. Brachial Plexus Block: Techniques Below the Clavicle75. Truncal Blocks: Intercostal, Paravertebral, Interpleural, Suprascapular, Ilioinguinal, and Iliohypogastric Nerve Blocks76. Lumbar Plexus, Femoral, Lateral Femoral Cutaneous, Obturator, Saphenous, and Fascia Iliaca Blocks77. Sciatic Nerve Block78. Ankle Block79. Issues in Peripheral Nerve Blocks: Use of Nerve Stimulators, Multiple Versus Single Injection Techniques, and Use of Adjuvants80. Peripheral Sympathetic Blocks81. Complications After Peripheral Nerve Blockade82. Complications After Neuraxial Blockade83. Anticoagulants and Neuraxial Injections
