The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Pain Management

The Second 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 Completely Revised New Edition Is Even More User-friendly And Clinical Than Its Predecessor. All Chapters Are Updated And 15 New Chapters Cover Epidemiology Of Pain; Quantitative Sensory Testing; Neuroradiology; Psychopharmacology For Pain; Pre-emptive Analgesia For Acute Pain; Chronic Pain And The Difficult Patient; Physical Therapy In Chronic Pain; Neuropathic Pain Syndromes; Depression And Pain; Pain And Drug Addiction; Pain And Suffering; Symptom Management; Palliative Care; Radiotherapy And Cancer Pain; And Radiopharmaceuticals. A Great Pocket Reference That Can Be Used On The Floor Daily. (product Description). Previous Ed. Edited By: David Borsook, Alyssa Lebel And Bucknam Mcpeek. Boston: Little, Brown, C1996. / Editor, Jane Ballantyne ; Associate Editors, Scott M. Fishman, Salahadin Abdi ; Foreword By Howard L. Fields. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Pain Management Contents......Page 2 Foreword......Page 7 Preface......Page 8 1 Neural Basis of Pain......Page 9 2 Pain Mechanisms and Their Importance in Clinical Practice and Research......Page 15 3 The Placebo Effect......Page 18 4 The History and Clinical Examination......Page 21 5 Diagnostic Imaging and Pain Management......Page 25 6 Assessment of Pain......Page 30 7 Neurophysiologic Testing in Pain Management......Page 36 8 Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs......Page 39 9 Opioids......Page 45 10 Adjuvant Treatments......Page 54 11 Psychopharmacology for the Pain Specialist......Page 59 12 Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedures in Pain Management......Page 65 13 Interventional Treatment for Chronic Pain......Page 81 14 Neurosurgical Interventions for Chronic Pain......Page 88 15 Psychosocial and Behavioral Approaches......Page 92 16 Physical Therapy......Page 97 17 Physical Medicine in the Treatment of Pain......Page 100 18 Acupuncture......Page 104 19 Chronic Pain Rehabilitation......Page 107 20 Radiotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals for Cancer Pain......Page 111 21 Postoperative Pain in Adults......Page 114 22 Postoperative Pain in Children......Page 122 23 Pain in Burn Patients......Page 129 24 Pain Management in Sickle Cell Disease......Page 131 25 Neuropathic Pain Syndromes......Page 135 26 Complex Regional Pain Syndromes......Page 142 27 Back and Neck Pain......Page 147 28 Headache......Page 153 29 Facial Pain......Page 161 30 Opioid Therapy in Chronic Nonmalignant Pain......Page 168 31 Pain in Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome......Page 172 32 Pain in Adults with Cancer......Page 177 33 Control of Pain in Children with Chronic and Terminal Disease......Page 183 34 Palliative Medicine......Page 187 35 Chronic Opioid Therapy, Drug Abuse, and Addiction......Page 191 36 Pain and Affective Disorders......Page 195 37 Emergencies in the Pain Clinic......Page 198 Definitions and Abbreviations......Page 202 Appendix I......Page 204 Appendix II IASP Classification of Chronic Pain Syndromes......Page 205 Appendix III Useful Addresses and Web Sites......Page 210 Appendix IV Standards of Treatment: The American Pain Society's Quality Assurance Standards for Relief of Acute and Cancer Pain......Page 216 Appendix V Massachusetts General Hospital Pain Center Guidelines on Prescribing Controlled Substances for Patients with Nonmalignant Chronic Disease......Page 217 Appendix VI Guidelines for the Prescription of Controlled Substances Issued by the Drug Enforcement Agency......Page 218 Appendix VII Food and Drug Administration State Drug Schedules......Page 219 Appendix VIII Drugs Commonly Used in Pain Practice......Page 220