Compact Clinical Guide to Chronic Pain Management
Springer Publishing Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8261-0540-0 (ISBN)
The text expertly assists practitioners in assessing pain in a variety of patient populations and provides professional insight on selecting patient-appropriate medications and interventions to achieve optimal pain management for adult patients.
Key Features:
Contains the newest guidelines on how to use a combination of pain screening tools to accurately assess the nature, intensity, and occurrence of patient pain
Provides information on new medications and combinations of medications to use for chronic pain
Presents essential information on safe prescribing and screening tools such as the Opioid Risk Tool (ORT) and screening tools for aberrant behaviors
Provides strategies for utilizing nontraditional treatment options such as acupuncture, energy therapies, and psychological and coping strategies.
Yvonne D'Arcy, MS, CRNP, CNS, is the Pain Management and Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner at Suburban Hospital- Johns Hopkins Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. She has served on the board of directors for the American Society of Pain Management Nurses and has played an integral role in the formulation of several guidelines on the management of acute and chronic pain. She is a Principle Investigator at Suburban Hospital for several studies to include the use of EMLA to reduce pain in elderly patients when IVs are placed and the Dissemination and Implementation of Evidence -based methods to Measure and Improve Pain Outcomes. Ms. D'Arcy is also the recipient of the Nursing Spectrum Nursing Excellence Award in the Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia districts for Advancing and Leading the Profession. She has contributed to numerous books and journals throughout her career. Books include Pain Management: Evidence-Based Tools and Techniques for Nursing Professionals, Compact Clinical Guide to Chronic Pain, and her book, How to Manage Pain in the Elderly is an American Journal of Nursing book of the year for 2010. Her books, A Compact Clinical Guide to Cancer Pain co-authored with Pamela Davies, and A Compact Clinical to Women's Pain, are scheduled for a 2012 publication. Ms D'Arcy lectures and presents nationally and internationally on such topics as chronic pain, difficult-to-treat neuropathic pain syndromes, how to teat pain in the elderly, and all aspects of acute pain management. Articles she has published can be found in an extensive number of journals, including but not limited to American Nurse Today, Nursing 2011, Pain Management Nursing, PT Insider, and Nurse Practitioner Journal.
Foreword
SECTION I: OVERVIEW AND ASSESSMENT OF CHRONIC PAIN
1. The Problem of Chronic Pain
2. The Art and Science of Chronic Pain Assessment
SECTION II: PAIN MANAGEMENT OPTIONS
3. Nonopioid Analgesics
4. Opioids
5. Coanalgesics for Additive Pain Relief
6. Complementary and Integrative Therapies for Pain Management
7. Pain Clinic Referrals and Interventional Options
SECTION III: SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR TREATING CHRONIC PAIN
8. Effect of Opioid Polymorphisms and Gender Differences
9. Pain and Addiction
10. Developing a Comprehensive Treatment Plan for Patients With Chronic Pain
SECTION IV: TREATING COMMON CHRONIC PAIN CONDITIONS
11. Low Back Pain
12. Rheumatoid Arthritis and Osteoarthritis
13. Fibromyalgia
14. Headaches
SECTION V: MANAGING NEUROPATHIC PAIN SYNDROMES
15. Overview of Neuropathic Pain
16. Peripheral Neuropathic Pain Syndromes
17. Central Pain Syndromes
Appendix A Selected Websites for Guidelines
Appendix B Equianalgesic Conversion Table
Index
| Verlagsort | New York |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 368 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Pharmakologie / Pharmakotherapie |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Schmerztherapie | |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8261-0540-8 / 0826105408 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8261-0540-0 / 9780826105400 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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