Description
Acute Pain brings coverage of this diverse area together in a single comprehensive clinical reference, from the basic mechanisms underlying the development of acute pain, to the various treatments that can be applied to control it in different clinical settings. Much expanded in this second edition, the volume reflects the huge advances that contin
Table of Contents
PART 1 GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS 1a Applied physiology of nociception - Pierre Beaulieu 1b Mechanisms of inflammatory hyperalgesia - Suellen M Walker 2 Developmental neurobiology of nociception - Suellen M Walker 3 Clinical pharmacology: opioids - David J Rowbotham, Alcira Serrano-Gomez and Anne Heffernan 4 Clinical pharmacology: Traditional NSAIDs and selective COX-2 inhibitors - Stephen F Jones and Aidan M Oa Donnell 5 Clinical pharmacology: paracetamol and compound analgesics - Phil Wiffen 6 Clinical pharmacology: other adjuvants - Evangelos Tziavrangos and Stephan A Schug 7 Clinical pharmacology: local anesthetics - Jonathan McGhie and Michael G Serpell 8 Assessment, measurement and history - David A Scott and Wendy M McDonald 9 Preventive analgesia and beyond: current status, evidence, and future directions - Joel Katz PART 2 MANAGEMENT - TECHNIQUES 10 Routes of administration - Jeremy Cashman 11 Patient-controlled analgesia - Pamela E Macintyre and Julia Coldrey 12 Continuous peripheral neural blockade for acute pain - Kim E Russon and William Harrop-Griffiths 13 Epidural and spinal analgesia - Sina Grape and Stephan A Schug 14 Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) and acupuncture for acute pain - Mark I Johnson, Stephen Oxberry and Karen H Simpson 15 Psychological therapies - adults - H Clare Daniel 16 Psychological interventions for acute pediatric pain - Christina Liossi and Linda S Franck PART 3 MANAGEMENT a CLINICAL SITUATIONS 17 Postoperative pain management following day surgery - Girish P Joshi 18 Acute pain management in the intensive care unit - R Scott Simpson 19 Acute pain management in the emergency department - Anne-Maree Kelly
