MGH Handbook of Pain Management

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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. Subscribe to Lippincott's Interactive Anesthesia Library and get online access to the fully searchable content of eight critically acclaimed references in anesthesiology, critical care, and pain management "Doody's Core Titles™ 2009." Table of Contents Section I Neurophysiological Basis of Pain Gary J. Brenner Pain Mechanisms and Their Importance in Clinical Practice and Research Isabelle Decosterd and Clifford J. Woolf The Placebo Effect Eija Kalso Section II. Diagnosis of Pain The History and Clinical Examination Jan Slezak and Asteghik Hacobian Diagnostic Imaging and Pain Management Onassis Caneris Assessment of Pain Alyssa LeBel Neurophysiologic Testing in Pain Management Annabel Edwards and Lisa Krivickas Section III. Therapeutic Options: Pharmacologic Approaches Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs Steven Barna Opioids Jeffrey Uppington Adjuvant Treatments Karla Hayes Psychopharmacology for the Pain Specialist Daniel Rockers and Karla Hayes Section IV. Therapeutic Options: Nonpharmacologic Approaches Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedures in Pain Management Milan Stojanovic Neuromodulation Techniques for the Treatment of Pain Milan Stojanovic Neurosurgical Pain Management Ramin Amirnovin, G. Rees Cosgrove, and Emad Eskandar Psychological Assessment and Behavioral Treatment of Chronic Pain Ronald J. Kulich and Lainie Andrew Physical Therapy Teresa Michel and Harriet Wittink Physical Medicine in the Treatment of Pain Joseph Audette Acupuncture May Pian-Smith Chronic Pain Rehabilitation Elizabeth Loder and Pat McAlary Radiotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals for Cancer Pain Thomas F. DeLaney Section V. Acute Pain Postoperative Pain in Adults Katharine Fleischmann and Elizabeth Ryder Postoperative Pain in Children Lucy Chen Pain in Burn Patients Salahadin Abdi Pain Management in Sickle Cell Disease Jatinder Gill Section VI. Chronic Pain Neuropathic Pain Syndromes Dennis Dey and Anne Louise Oaklander Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Daniela Hord Back & Neck Pain (Diagnosis) Shihab Ahmed and James Rathmell Back Pain (Management) Zahid Bajwa and Thomas Simopoulos Headache Mike Cutrer and David Black Facial Pain Martin Acquadro and Alexandre DeSilva Opioid Therapy in CNTP Jane Ballantyne and Jianren Mao Pain in Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Andrew Rice Section VII. Pain Due to Cancer Pain in Adults with Cancer Daniela Hord and Annabel Edwards Control of Pain in Children with Chronic and Terminal Disease Alyssa LeBel and Karla Hayes Palliative Medicine J Andrew Billings Section VIII. Special Situations Chronic Opioid Therapy, Drug Abuse and Addiction Jane Ballantyne and David Gastfriend Pain and Affective Disorders Dan Rockers and Scott Fishman Emergencies in the Pain Clinic Asi Hacobian and Milan Stojanovic Drug Appendix Del Black and Gary Brenner