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Pain management made incredibly easy!
Holman Biotech Commons RB127 .P33238 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pain--Treatment.
- Pain.
- Analgesia.
- Pain Management.
- Palliative Care.
- Medical Subjects:
- Pain Management.
- Palliative Care.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 346 pages : illustrations (mostly color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia ; London : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2003]
- Summary:
- Pain Management Made Incredibly Easy! is divided in to four parts. Part I covers the fundamental concepts of pain, including the anatomy and physiology of pain, the experience of pain, and pain assessment. Part 2 covers common types of pain as well as pain specific to AIDS patients, cancer patients, pediatric patients, and elderly patients. Part 3 discusses managing pain, including pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic approaches to pain management, management of surgical pain, and alternative and complimentary therapies. Part 4 concerns patient education about dependency and abuse and lifestyle management.
- Contents:
- Understanding pain
- Assessing pain
- Pharmacologic pain management
- Nonpharmacologic pain management
- Acute pain
- Chronic nonmalignant pain
- Cancer pain
- HIV-AIDS pain
- Pain in pediatric patients
- Pain in elderly patients
- Addictive disease
- Lifestyle management.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 339) and index.
- Includes web resources.
- ISBN:
- 1582552274
- OCLC:
- 51461204
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