Handbook of pain management : a clinical companion to Wall and Melzack's Textbook of pain / edited by Ronald Melzack, Patrick D. Wall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Melzack, Ronald.

Wall, Patrick D. (Patrick David), 1925-2001.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pain--Treatment.

Pain.

Pain Management.

Medical Subjects:

Pain Management.

Physical Description:

xi, 753 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Churchill Livingstone, 2003.

Summary:

The Handbook of Pain Management, edited by Ronald Melzack and Patrick D. Wall, is a concise overview of the most important information about every clinical aspect of pain. It is for all health-care professionals, in practice and in training, involved in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with a wide variety of acute and chronic pain problems. This handbook is a clinical companion to the authoritative Wall and Melzack's Textbook of Pain and is designed to provide an affordable, accessible summary of our current knowledge of pain states and their management for use in the clinic, office or home. The handbook is divided into three sections: Clinical Pain States, Therapeutic Approaches, Special Problems of Assessment and Management. The emphasis throughout is on the diagnosis and treatment of clinical pain states and includes recent advances in all aspects of therapy. A special section is devoted to assessing and managing the most challenging problems: pain in children, burn pain, neuropathic pain, cancer pain, gender-related pain, AIDS-related pain and pain in the elderly.

Contents:

Section 1 Clinical pain states

Soft tissue, joints and bones

1. Acute and postoperative pain / Michael Cousins, Ian Power 11

2. Osteoarthritis / Paul Creamer 31

3. Rheumatoid arthritis / Malcolm I V Jayson 39

4. Muscles, tendons and ligaments / Dianne J Newham, Kerry R Mills 49

5. Chronic back pain / Donlin M Long 67

6. Upper extremity pain / Anders E Sola 77

7. Fibromyalgia / Robert Bennett 95

Deep and visceral pain

8. Abdominal pain / Laurence M Blendis 109

9. Heart, vascular and haemopathic pain / Paolo Procacci, Massimo Zoppi, Marco Maresca 121

10. Chronic pelvic pain / Andrea J Rapkin, Julie A Jolin 135

11. Obstetric pain / John S McDonald, Carl R Noback 147

12. Genitourinary pain / Ursula Wesselmann, Arthur L Burnett 163

Head

13. Orofacial pain / Yair Sharav 177

14. Trigeminal, eye and ear pain / Joanna M Zakrzewska 199

15. Headache / Jean Schoenen, Peter S Sandor 217

Nerve and root damage

16. Postamputation pain / Lone Nikolajsen, Troels Staehelin Jensen 247

17. Peripheral neuropathies / J W Scadding 259

18. Complex regional pain syndrome / J W Scadding 275

19. Nerve root disorders and arachnoiditis / David Dubuisson 289

Central nervous system

20. Central pain / Jorgen Boivie 305

21. Spinal cord injury / Aleksandar Beric 329

Section 2 Therapeutic approaches

Pharmacology

22. Antipyretic analgesics / Kay Brune, Hanns Ulrich Zeilhofer 339

23. Psychotropic drugs / Richard Monks, Harold Merskey 353

24. Opioids / Catherine Sweeney, Eduardo Bruera 377

25. Local anaesthetics and epidurals / H J McQuay, RA Moore 397

26. Atypical analgesic drugs and sympathetic blockers / C A Chong, R Munglani, R G Hill 413

Surgery

27. Disc surgery / Bo Salen, Erik Spangfort 427

28. Orthopaedic surgery / Robert F McLain, James N Weinstein 435

29. Central neurosurgery / Jan M Gybels, Ron R Tasker 453

Physical therapies

30. Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation / Per Hansson, Thomas Lundeberg 465

31. Ultrasound, shortwave, microwave, laser, superficial heat and cold in the treatment of pain / Justus F Lehmann, Barbara J de Lateur 473

32. Mobilization, manipulation, massage and exercise for the relief of musculoskeletal pain / Scott Haldeman, Paul D Hooper 485

Psychological therapies

33. The placebo and the placebo response / Patrick D Wall 503

34. Relaxation and biofeedback / Vivienne X Gallegos 509

35. Hypnotic analgesia / Ann Gamsa 521

36. A cognitive-behavioral approach to pain management / Dennis C Turk, Akiko Okifuji 533

Section 3 Special problems of assessment and management

Age and sex differences

37. Pain in children / Charles B Berde, Bruce Masek 543

38. Pain in the elderly / Lucia Gagliese, Ronald Melzack 559

39. Sex and gender differences in pain / Anita Holdcroft, Karen J Berkley 569

Neuropathic and burn pain

40. Peripheral neuropathic pain: an approach to management / Howard L Fields 581

41. Pain of burns / Manon Choiniere 591

Cancer pain

42. Cancer pain syndromes / Nathan I Cherny 603

43. The management of cancer pain / Nathan I Cherny 641

44. Cancer pain and palliative care in children / Charles B Berde, John J Collins 669

45. Cancer pain and AIDS-related pain: psychiatric and ethical issues / William Breitbart, Steven D Passik, Barry D Rosenfeld 689

46. Pain and impending death / Cicely Saunders, Michael Platt 721.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0443072019

OCLC:

226972817