Pain Management E-Book

Pain Management E-Book

John Hughes

• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
• Year: 2008
• Print ISBN:
  9780443103360
• eBook ISBN:
  9780702050794
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Anesthesiology & Pain Management

This book describes the underlying mechanisms and management of pain. It is aimed primarily at undergraduates who traditionally have received somewhat fragment teaching of this important problem within their curriculum.. This text would bring the elements of pain training together in one place and improve their understanding. It would also help anybody in the healthcare profession to develop an understanding of pain before moving on to clinical practice or more advanced training. The chapters have a logical sequence building from the basic sciences, introducing possible interventions before addressing assessment and more detailed therapeutic interventions. There are scenarios later in the book to bring together the earlier concepts. This will allow the text to be revisited as appropriate throughout the training years or be used as a reference later on.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Pain Management
• Copyright Page
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Contributors
• Abbreviations
• Definitions
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Neurophysiology
• Chapter 3: Neuroanatomy
• Chapter 4: Neuropharmacology
• Chapter 5: Peripheral mechanisms
• Chapter 6: Central mechanisms
• Chapter 7: Non-pharmacological interventions
• Chapter 8: Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and paracetamol
• Chapter 9: Local anaesthetics: other membrane stabilisers
• Chapter 10: Opioids
• Chapter 11: Adjuvant and miscellaneous drugs used in pain management
• Chapter 12: Peripheral interventions
• Chapter 13: Pain as a clinical entity
• Chapter 14: Epidemiology of pain
• Chapter 15: Pain assessment
• Chapter 16: Psychological impact of chronic pain
• Chapter 17: Interventions in pain management
• Chapter 18: Management strategies
• Chapter 19: Pain, ethics and research
• Index