The Massachusetts General Hospital handbook of pain management /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,
[2006]
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| Edition: | Third edition. |
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| Online Access: | The Massachusetts General Hospital handbook of pain management (Online) |
Table of Contents:
- Neurophysiologic basis of pain
- Pain mechanisms and their importance in clinical practice and research
- The placebo effect
- The history and clinical examination
- Diagnostic imaging and pain management
- Assessment of pain
- Neurophysiologic testing in pain management
- Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs
- Opioids
- Adjuvant treatments
- Psychopharmacology for the pain specialist
- Diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in pain management
- Neuromodulation techniques for the treatment of pain
- Neurosurgical pain management
- Psychological assessment and behavioral treatment of chronic pain
- Physical therapy
- Physiatric treatment of pain
- Acupuncture
- Chronic pain rehabilitation
- Radiotherapy and radiopharmaceuticals for cancer pain
- Postoperative pain in adults
- Postoperative pain in children
- Pain in burn patients
- Pain management in sickle cell disease
- Neuropathic pain syndromes
- Complex regional pain syndrome
- Low back pain
- Headache
- Orofacial pain
- Opioids in chronic nonterminal pain
- Pain in Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Pain in adults with cancer
- Control of pain in children with chronic and terminal disease
- Palliative medicine
- Long-term opioid therapy, drug abuse and addiction
- Pain and affective disorders
- Emergencies in the pain clinic.