Description
A team of todays leaders in this rapidly changing field present definitive, evidence-based guidance on optimal postoperative pain practice. Comprehensive in scope, the text spans the spectrum of patients from infants to the elderly, and examines topics including the scientific basis of postoperative pain, management of postoperative pain, and postoperative pain management in specific clinical settings. A bonus CD-ROM, bound in the text, presents approximately 200 case-based question sets for self-assessment.
Product Details
Reference
35545
EAN13
9781416024545
ISBN
9781416024545
Data sheet
Publication date
2006
Issue number
1
Cover
hard cover
Pages count
304
Dimensions (mm)
211 x 276
Weight (g)
885
I. Evidence-Based Practice 1. Introduction 2. The Principles of Evidence-Based Practice 3. Accessing Information on Pain Management 4. Practice Guidelines, Protocols and RecommendationsII. Scientific Basis of Postoperative Pain and Analgesia 5. The Neurohumoral, Inflammatory and Coagulation Responses to Surgery 6. Nociceptive Mechanisms of Postoperative Pain 7. Neuropathic Mechanisms of Postoperative Pain 8. Genetic Factors in Postoperative Pain 9. Patient Outcome in Postoperative Pain 10. Wound Healing and PainIII. Management of Postoperative Pain 11. Pain Management Objectives 12. Clinical Assessment of Postoperative Pain 13. Prediction and Preemptive analgesia 14. The Acute Pain Service 15. Opioids: Indications, Efficacy and Regimens 16. Opioids: Adverse Effects, Limitations and Failures of Therapy 17. Patient-Controlled Analgesia 18. Regional and Peripheral Techniques 19. NSAIDs 20. Multimodal Analgesia 21. Nonconventional Analgesics and TechniquesIV. Postoperative Pain Management in Specific Clinical Settings 22. Postoperative Pain Management in Infants and Children 23. Postoperative Pain Management in the Elderly 24. Postoperative Pain Management Following Caesarean Section 25. Postoperative Pain Management for Patients with Drug Dependence 26. Postoperative Pain Management in the Ambulatory Setting 27. Prevention And Management of Chronic Postsurgical Pain