Fast Facts: Chronic and Cancer Pain /

Fast Facts: Chronic and Cancer Pain /

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Author / Creator:Cousins, Michael J.
Edition:4th ed.
Imprint:Oxford : HEALTH Press Limited, 2017.
Description:1 online resource (159 pages)
Language:English
Series:Fast facts
Fast facts.
Subject:
Chronic pain.
Cancer pain.
Cancer pain.
Chronic pain.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13358390
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Other authors / contributors:Gallagher, Rollin.
ISBN:9781910797488
1910797480
9781910797495
1910797499
1910797359
9781910797358
Notes:Print version record.
Summary:"All health professionals, regardless of specialty, will care for patients with pain that has persisted for more than 6 months. This fully updated fourth edition of 'Fast Facts: Chronic and Cancer Pain', written by two internationally renowned experts in the field, is designed to bring busy health professionals up to speed with the latest information in this area, including:" Easy-to-read overviews of pain mechanisms " A practical approach to pain assessment" Developments in stepped care and multimodal management" The latest thinking on opioidsWith health services around the world responding to calls to improve the management of painful long-term conditions, develop preventive and cost-effective solutions, and respond to patient choice and voice, this easy-to-read fact-packed book is essential reading for all GPs, nurses, junior hospital doctors, physical therapists, clinical psychologists, occupational therapists, pharmacists, medical specialists and medical students wanting - and needing - to know more."--Website ebook
Other form:Print version: Cousins, Michael J. Fast Facts: Chronic and Cancer Pain. Oxford : HEALTH PRESS LIMITED, ©2017 9781910797358
Table of Contents:
  • About the Authors
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Definitions and mechanisms
  • Defining pain
  • Mechanisms of pain
  • Interpretation
  • Mechanisms of neuropathic pain
  • Genetics and pain
  • Memory and pain
  • The brain and pain
  • Pain chronification
  • Developments in pain management
  • 2. Assessment of pain
  • History
  • Examination
  • Psychosocial assessment
  • Assessment for risk of substance abuse
  • Diagnostic tests
  • 3. Treatment options
  • Pain chronification and interdisciplinary stepped care
  • Active self-managementPassive; management
  • Pharmacotherapy
  • Invasive procedures
  • 4. Trigeminal neuralgia
  • Pathophysiology
  • Diagnosis
  • Management
  • Invasive procedures
  • 5. Complex regional pain syndrome
  • Pathophysiology
  • Diagnostic tests
  • Treatment
  • Physical and occupational therapies
  • Psychological therapy
  • Pharmacological management
  • Invasive procedures
  • Preventive strategies
  • Prognosis
  • 6. Diabetic and postherpetic neuropathic pain
  • Diabetic neuropathy
  • Postherpetic neuralgia
  • 7. Central pain
  • PathophysiologyDiagnosis
  • Onset of central pain
  • Pain sites
  • Pain character
  • Treatment
  • 8. Persistent postsurgical pain
  • Persistent postsurgical pain
  • Pathophysiology
  • Prevention
  • Treatment
  • Postincisional pain
  • Postamputation persistent pain
  • 9. Cancer pain
  • Pathophysiology
  • Assessment
  • Treatment
  • 10. Musculoskeletal pain
  • Chronic low back pain
  • Spinal stenosis
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Pain due to osteoporosis
  • Pain due to osteoarthritis
  • Pain due to rheumatoid arthritis
  • 11. Visceral pain
  • PathophysiologySymptomatic management
  • Irritable bowel syndrome
  • Interstitial cystitis
  • Male chronic pelvic pain syndrome
  • Endometriosis
  • 12. Headache
  • Classification
  • Pathophysiology and associated signs and symptoms
  • Physical examination
  • Diagnostic tests
  • Treatment
  • Acknowledgments and useful resources

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