Acute Pain (Oxford Pain Management Library)
Lesley Bromley and Brigitta Brandner
Print publication date: Jun 2010
ISBN: 9780199234721
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Abstract
This title covers the fundamentals of pain, the pharmacology of drugs used, and summarises the current evidence base for the management of acute pain.
Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Chapter 1 The physiology of acute pain
- Chapter 2 The pharmacology of the drugs used in acute pain
- Chapter 3 Non-pharmacological methods of acute pain management
- Chapter 4 Acute pain management in principle
- Chapter 5 Evidence and outcomes in acute pain management
- Chapter 6 Post-operative pain
- Chapter 7 Day surgery analgesia
- Chapter 8 Trauma pain and procedural pain: prevention of chronic pain following acute trauma
- Chapter 9 Treatment of pain in burns patients
- Chapter 10 Acute pain in children
- Chapter 11 Acute pain in the elderly
- Chapter 12 Acute pain in pregnancy
- Chapter 13 Acute pain in cancer
- Chapter 14 Acute pain in haematological disorders
- Chapter 15 Acute pain in patients with renal or hepatic impairment
- Chapter 16 Acute pain in the neurological patient
- Chapter 17 Acute pain in chronic opiate users
- Chapter 18 Acute pain in peripheral vascular disease
- End Matter
