ABC of Pain
ABC Series
1. Edition June 2012
128 Pages, Softcover
Practical Approach Book
Short Description
This brand new title in the ABC series focuses on the pain management issues most often encountered in primary care. It covers all the chronic pain presentations in primary care right through to tertiary and palliative care and includes guidance on pain management in special groups such as pregnant women, children, the elderly, and the terminally ill. It covers new findings on the effectiveness of interventions and includes the progression from acute pain and appropriate pharmacological management, featuring pain assessment, epidemiology, and the evidence base in a truly comprehensive reference.
Chronic pain is a very common problem, impacting on many patients. Assessment and management can be challenging. The ABC of Pain focuses on the pain management issues often encountered in primary care.
Covering major chronic pain presentations, such as musculoskeletal pain, low back pain and neuropathic pain, the ABC of Pain also provides guidance on the management of pain in pregnancy, children, older adults, drug dependency and the terminally ill. Beginning with an overview of the epidemiology of chronic pain, pain mechanisms and the assessment of pain, it then provides practical guidance on interventional procedures and methods of effective pain management.
The ABC of Pain is a comprehensive, evidence-based reference. It is ideal for GPs, junior doctors, nurse specialists in primary care, palliative care specialists, and also hospital and hospice staff managing chronically and terminally ill patients.
Preface
1 Epidemiology of Chronic Pain
Blair H. Smith and Nicola Torrance
2 Pain Mechanisms
Carole Torsney and Susan Fleetwood-Walker
3 Evaluation of the patient in pain
>Dennis C. Turk and Kimberly S. Swanson
4 Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain
Paul Dieppe
5 Management of Low Back Pain
Lesley A. Colvin and James Campbell
6 Neuropathic Pain
Lesley A. Colvin and Suzanne Carty
7 Visceral Pain
James Maybin and Michael G. Serpell
8 Post-surgical Pain
Susan Nimmo and Lesley Dickson
9 Headache and Orofacial Pain
Anne MacGregor and Joanna M Zakrzewska
10 Cancer Pain
Marie Fallon
11 Treating pain in patients with drug-dependence problems
Jane C. Ballantyne
12 Pain in Children
Suellen M Walker
13 Pain in Older Adults
Debra K. Weiner
14 Pain in Pregnancy
George R Harrison
15 Psychological Aspects of Chronic Pain
David Gillanders
16 Interventional procedures in pain management
Dominic Hegarty and Damian Murphy
17 The role of Physiotherapy in Pain Management
Paul J. Watson
18 The role of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) in pain management
Mark I. Johnson
19 Complementary and Alternative Strategies
Margaret Cullen and Fiona MacPherson
20 Opioids in chronic non-malignant pain
Eija Kalso
Index
Lesley Colvin, Consultant/ Senior Lecturer in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, Department of Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
Marie Fallon, St Columba's Hospice Chair of Palliative Medicine, Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre (CRUK), Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
