Pocket Guide Pain Management (eBook)

Claudia Spies, Benno Rehberg, Stephan A. Schug, Gunnar Jaehnichen, Sarah Harper (Herausgeber)

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2008 | 2009
XII, 108 Seiten
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-540-32997-8 (ISBN)

Infos

In the United States about 50 million people sufer from recurrent or chronic pain, and nearly 10% of adults take medication for pain daily. Further, the disease burden of pain is expected to grow, relative to other illnesses and conditions. Despite the advances in pain medicine, most physicians are not - equately trained to treat chronic or even acute pain. As in other felds of medicine, pain medicine has long been dominated by expert op- ion relying on personal expertise, and only recently has a systematic evaluation of treatments in the terms of 'evidence-based medicine' been performed. And also as in other felds of medicine, a lot can be achieved in pain medicine when certain basic diagnostic and therapeutic pathways are f- lowed correctly; more than can be achieved when only a few specialists are able to treat these conditions. 'Standard operating procedures' (SOPs) are supposed to be concise practical aids for clinicians, standardizing treatments, diagnostic pa- ways and procedures in one of sometimes many possible ways. Although based on the available evidence, they are not evidence-based guidelines and are not supposed to replace such guidelines. On one hand, eviden- based medicine ofen leaves many options open, since in many cases the available evidence is not sufcient to recommend a specifc option. On the other hand, there might be reasons due to clinical practice (e. g.

Inhalt

Preface 5
Contents 7
1 General Principles of Pain Management 12
1.1 Pain Evaluation 14
1.2 Documentation of Pain 15
1.3 Psychological Pain Management 18
Bibliography 21
2 Headache 22
2.1 Migraine Classification 23
2.2 Tension- Type Headache ( TTH) Classification 31
2.3 Persistent Idiopathic Facial Pain Classification 35
2.4 Cluster Headache Classification 37
2.5 Medication- Overuse Headache ( MOH) Classification 41
2.6 Trigeminal Neuralgia Classification 43
Bibliography 46
Websites 47
3 Pain of Musculoskeletal Origin 48
3.1 Back Pain Classification ( ICD 10, SGB-V, Version 2.0) 49
3.2 Radicular Root Irritation Syndrome Diagnostic Criteria 52
3.3 Pseudoradicular Root Irritation Syndrome Diagnostic Criteria 55
3.4 Fibromyalgia Classification ( ICD 10, SGB-V, Version 2.0) 58
3.5 Osteoporosis Classification ( ICD 10, SGB-V, Version 2.0) 60
Bibliography 62
Websites 63
4 Neuropathic Pain 64
4.1 Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) Classification ( ICD 10, SGB- V, Version 2.0) 66
4.2 Phantom Pain Classification ( ICD 10, SGB-V, Version 2.0) 70
4.3 Postherpetic Neuralgia Classification ( ICD 10, SGB- V, Version 2.0) 73
Bibliography 76
Websites 77
5 Cancer Pain 78
Introduction and General Principles 79
Epidemiology 79
Classification by Etiology 80
Classification of Type of Pain 81
Therapy— General Principles 81
Drug Therapy— Most Common Errors 84
WHO Guidelines for Treatment of Cancer Pain 84
Opioid Therapy- Management of Side Effects and Complications 88
Therapy with Adjuvant Drugs 89
Interventional Pain Therapy 90
Psychological Therapy 90
Bibliography 90
6 Postoperative Pain 91
6.1 Nursing Staff- Managed Pain Therapy ( Nurse Controlled Analgesia, NCA) 93
6.2 Patient Controlled Analgesia ( PCA) 96
6.3 Epidural Analgesia ( EDA) 100
6.4 Continuous Peripheral Nerve Analgesia 105
6.5 Systemic Analgesia 109
Bibliography 110
Subject Index 112

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.9.2008
• Zusatzinfo: XII, 108 p. 3 illus.
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Anästhesie
• Schlagworte: Care • Hospital • Management • migraine • Osteoporosis • Pain • pain management • Quality management • SOP • Standard Operating Procedures • therapy
• ISBN-10: 3-540-32997-8 / 3540329978
• ISBN-13: 978-3-540-32997-8 / 9783540329978