Pain management : expanding the pharmacological options / Gary J. McCleane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCleane, Gary.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Analgesics.

Analgesia.

Pain--Treatment.

Pain.

Pain--drug therapy.

Drug Therapy--methods.

Medical Subjects:

Pain--drug therapy.

Drug Therapy--methods.

Physical Description:

viii, 192 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Chichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.

Summary:

Conventional pharmaceutical approaches to pain management are not always successful. Using only those medications that have an official indication for a certain condition reduces substantially the chance of the patient gaining pain relief and may expose them to intolerable side effects. However evidence now exists on the use of other drugs, produced for non-pain conditions, and how they can substantially increase the chances of pain relief.

Covering the most recent developments in this field, McCleane offers an alternative solution to pain treatment when conventional treatments fail. This pioneering book proposes evidence-based alternatives to current options in pain management, using well-grounded rationales for each given treatment.

This book is an ideal reference for the specialist and non-specialist prescriber alike and for practitioners from a wide variety of disciplines. It provides the evidence required and treatment algorithms for readers to use the drugs appropriately and to explore the field if they wish.

Contents:

2 Conventional Pain Treatment 5

3 Using Drugs Outside Their Licensed Indication 15

4 Topical Nitrates 25

5 Topical Tricyclic Antidepressants 33

6 Topical Opioids 39

7 Topical Local Anesthetics 43

8 Topical Glutamate Receptor Antagonists 49

9 Topical, Oral, and Perineural [alpha]-Adrenoreceptor Agonists 53

10 Lamotrigine 59

11 5HT[subscript 3] Antagonists 65

12 Cholecystokinin Antagonists 73

13 Parenteral Anti-epileptics 83

14 Intravenous Lidocaine 87

15 l-Carnitine 100

16 Other Pharmacological Options (Botulinum, Cimetidine, Glucosamine) 105

17 Neuropathic Pain 115

18 Complex Regional Pain Syndrome 119

19 Joint Pain 124

20 Fracture Pain 133

21 Postoperative Pain 142

22 Fibromyalgia 147

23 Muscle Spasm and Pain 155

24 Tendinopathies 163

25 Low Back Pain 172

26 Cancer Pain 179

Appendix Suggested Doses and Modes of Administration of Novel Pharmacological Options 186.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781405178235

140517823X

OCLC:

213008043