The Massachusetts General Hospital handbook of pain management /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Books@Ovid (Online service), Ovid Technologies, Inc
Other Authors: Ballantyne, Jane, 1948-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2006]
Edition:Third edition.
Subjects:
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.