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The Massachusetts General Hospital handbook of pain management / editor, Jane C. Ballantyne ; foreword by Howard L. Fields.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Handbook
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pain--Treatment--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Pain.
- Analgesia--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Analgesia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (652 p.)
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Other Title:
- Handbook of pain management
- Pain management
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2006]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Third Edition of this highly popular pocket guide presents the state-of-the-art approaches to pain management that are currently taught and practiced at the Massachusetts General Hospital. This edition has new chapters on chronic back pain, pain control in children with chronic and terminal disease, and diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, plus new illustrations of procedures and techniques. All chapters include the latest evidence-based information and coverage of fibromyalgia, psychosomatic complaints, headaches, and opioid cautions has been expanded. Tables and chapter-opening outlines enable readers to find information quickly. A drug appendix and seven other practical appendices are included.
- Contents:
- Neurophysiologic basis of pain / Gary Jay Brenner
- Pain mechanisms and their importance in clinical practice and research / Isabelle Decosterd and Clifford J. Woolf
- The placebo effect / Eija Kalso
- The history and clinical examination / Jan Slezak and Asteghik Hacobian
- Diagnostic imaging and pain management / Onassis A. Caneris
- Assessment of pain / Alyssa A. LeBel
- Neurophysiologic testing in pain management / Annabel D. Edwards and Lisa S. Krivickas
- Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs / Jane C. Ballantyne and Steven A. Barna
- Opioids / Jeffrey Uppington
- Adjuvant treatments / Karla Hayes
- Psychopharmacology for the pain specialist / Daniel M. Rockers and Karla Hayes
- Diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in pain management / Milan P. Stojanovic
- Neuromodulation techniques for the treatment of pain / Milan P. Stojanovic
- Neurosurgical pain management / Ramin Amirnovin, G. Rees Cosgrove, and Emad N. Eskandar
- Psychological assessment and behavioral treatment of chronic pain / Ronald J. Kulich and Lainie Andrew
- Physical therapy / Theresa H. Michel and Harriet Wittink
- Physiatric treatment of pain / Joseph F. Audette and Allison Bailey
- Acupuncture / Jasmin M. Field, Lucy L. Chen, and May C.M. Pian-Smith
- Chronic pain rehabilitation / Elizabeth Loder and Patricia W. McAlary
- Radiotherapy and radiopharmaceuticals for cancer pain / Thomas F. DeLaney
- Postoperative pain in adults / Jane C. Ballantyne and Elizabeth Ryder
- Postoperative pain in children / Lucy L. Chen and Jane C. Ballantyne
- Pain in burn patients / Salahadin Abdi and Bucknam McPeek
- Pain management in sickle cell disease / Jatinder Gill
- Neuropathic pain syndromes / Dennis Dey and Anne Louise Oaklander
- Complex regional pain syndrome / Eugenia-Daniela Hord
- Low back pain / James P. Rathmell ... [et al.]
- Headache / Fred Michael Cutrer and David F. Black
- Orofacial pain / Alexandre F.M. DeSilva and Martin Andrew Acquadro
- Opioids in chronic nonterminal pain / Jane C. Ballantyne
- Pain in Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / S. Jane Marshall, Sarah Cox, and Andrew S.C. Rice
- Pain in adults with cancer / Eugenia-Daniela Hord, Jeffrey A. Norton, and Annabel D. Edwards
- Control of pain in children with chronic and terminal disease / Alyssa A. LeBel
- Palliative medicine / Constance M. Dahlin, Andrew Tyler Putnam, and J. Andrew Billings
- Long-term opioid therapy, drug abuse, and addiction / Barth L. Wilsey and Scott Fishman
- Pain and affective disorders / Daniel M. Rockers and Scott Fishman
- Emergencies in the pain clinic / Asteghik Hacobian and Milan P. Stojanovic
- Appendices.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4698-7896-8
- OCLC:
- 908075955
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