Acute Pain Management - Rights Reverted: A Practical Guide

Acute Pain Management: A Practical Guide is intended to give readers a better understanding of the conventional methods of analgesia as well as the more advanced techniques that are now routinely used for the management of acute pain, such as patient-controlled, epidural and continuous regional analgesia.

The book explores pain control in more complex patients such as those with acute-on-chronic pain, acute cancer pain or acute pain from a multitude of medical conditions as well as those who are opioid-tolerant have acute neuropathic pain, or are elderly. In addition to new chapters on changes in clinical practice, added to each section are key points that highlight the level of evidence available for that topic. These points have been reproduced with permission from the acute pain guidelines published by the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists and Faculty of Pain Medicine, Acute Pain Management: Scientific Evidence - both authors were members of the working party responsible for this document - and annotated according to the system recommended by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia.

• Gives comprehensive cover of all of the areas of importance in the management of acute pain
• Presents highly practical information firmly supported by full evaluation of the scientific literature
• Concisely written text supplemented with useful checklists, flow charts and key points that can be readily referred to during treatment of a patient
• Gives a series of acute pain management plans, whilst at the same time discussing controversial areas and possible solutions
• Explores pain control in complex cases – opioid-tolerant patients, pregnant and lactating patients, patients with hepatic and renal impairment and the elderly
• Discusses the important areas of acute neuropathic pain and the transition from acute to persistent pain
• Key self-assessment questions and answers

• New chapters on assessment and monitoring highlight the importance of regular patient assessment and the need to individualize patient care
• Key points added after each major section that indicate the evidence available for that topic and the quality of that evidence
• Chapters on analgesic drugs and techniques have been extensively revised and updated
• New chapters have been added on post-surgical pain syndromes and acute neuropathic pain, and analgesia in specific non-surgical states as well as for some of the more complex cases including acute-on-chronic pain, acute cancer pain or acute pain from a multitude of medical conditions