BookAlaa Abd-Elsayed, editor.
Summary: This concise but comprehensive guide covers all common procedures in pain management necessary for daily practice, and includes all topics on the pain medicine curricula of the American Board of Anesthesiology, World Institute of Pain/Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice, and American Board of Pain Medicine. All nerve blocks (head, neck, back, pelvis and lower extremity) are discussed. Pain: A Review Guide is aimed at trainees in pain medicine all over the world. This book will also be beneficial to all practitioners who practice pain.
Contents:
Tation
Temperature modalities
Manipulation, mobilization, massage, traction
Casting and splinting
Exercise therapy
23. Work Rehabilitation
Importance of early intervention and early return to work in reducing absence
Psychosocial factors as the main determinants of disability
Identification of obstacles to recovery
Components of successful comprehensive rehabilitation program
Multidisciplinary approaches for those who do not return to work within a few weeks
Functional Capacity Evaluation
24. Complementary Therapies (CAM)
CAM
25. Clinical States: Taxonomy
IASP classification of chronic pain syndromes
Application and definition of pain terms
26. Pain in special population
Pain in Infants, Children, and Adolescents
Pain in older adults
Delirium in the elderly
Pain Issues in Individuals with Limited Ability to Communicate Due to Neurocognitive Impairments
27. Pain Relief in Persons with Substance use and Addictive Disorders
Biopharmacologic and neurophysiologic basis of addiction
Interactions between addiction and pain
Screening for substance use disorder or addiction in patients with pain
Principles of comprehensive approach to pain management in patients with addiction
Pharmacologic treatment of patients with addiction
Acute pain management of patients with active addiction or in recovery
Analgesic response to opioids in patients with addiction
Risks and benefits of opioid use in treatment of chronic/cancer pain in patients with substance use disorder
Needs of special populations
Legal, regulatory, reimbursement issues limiting access to care for patients with pain and addiction
Treatment of withdrawal
List of addictive drugs and their metabolites in urine
Impact of alcohol use on pain
28. Pain Relief in Areas of Deprivation and Conflict
Variability of availability and access to adequate pain treatment worldwide
Causes of pain worldwide
Spect cal principles in clinical assessment, explanation, and treatment
Common causes, diagnostic evaluation, and treatment in men
Common causes, diagnostic evaluation, and treatment in women
Superior hypogastric plexus block
Ganglion impar block
16. Surgical Pain Management
Importance of general health status in preoperative evaluation
Surgical lesioning of brain, brain stem, spinal cord, peripheral nerves
Radiofrequency treatment
Neurolysis
Spinal cord and peripheral nerve stimulation
Intrathecal drug delivery
DRG stimulator
Cordotomy
Kyphoplast and vertebroplasty
17. Nerve conditions
Complex Regional Pain Syndromes
Phantom limb pain
Peripheral neuropathy
Other nerve conditions as mononeuropathy, mononeurpathy multiplex and others
18. Central pain
Central pain
19. Cancer Pain
Palliative care
Hospice care
Comprehensive evaluation of patients with cancer pain
Principles of treatment
Analgesic ladder approach
Anesthetic approaches
Surgical and interventional radiologic approaches
Neurostimulatory approach
Physical therapy
Psychological approaches
Needs of special populations
Benefit to burden ratio
Anorexia and cachexia associated with cancer
20. Pain in Pregnancy and Labor
Factors influencing the perception of pain in pregnancy compared with the non-pregnant state
Causes of pain and principles of pain management in pregnancy
Mechanisms, characteristic, benefits, consequences and management of labor pain
21. Acute Pain
Epidemiology of inadequate control
Physiologic and psychologic effects
Pharmacologic properties of major classes of drugs used for acute pain management
Comprehensive plan for optimal perioperative pain management
Non-pharmacologic treatment
Clinical outcomes to be evaluated
Tools for assessment and measurement
Role of patient and family education
Treatment of nonsurgical pain
22. Physical Medicine and Rehabili.