Pain Management Yearbook 2010

Buch | Hardcover

2012
Nova Science Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-1-61209-972-9 (ISBN)

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This new book examines the issue of pain in individuals with intellectual disabilities by introducing the topic, as well as suggesting a model for pain in this population. A couple of articles suggest different approaches to the complex subject of evaluation in this group of clients, and also in depth approaches to specific syndromes. In this yearbook for 2010, you will find research published from the Journal of Pain Management by leading researchers from all over the world, which produces sound and evidence-based research that can help mankind to suffer less and enjoy a good quality of life.

Joav Merrick, MD, MMedSci, DMSc, (Medical Director, Health Services, Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem, Israel; Division of Adolescent Medicine, KY Childrens Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Lexington, Kentucky, US; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Jerusalem, Israel; Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Centers, Mt Scopus Campus, Jerusalem, Israel; School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, US)

Introduction; Psychodynamic pain management for cancer patients; The relationship factors between radiation oncologists & hospice professionals that influence cancer pain palliation; Symptom clusters in metastatic cancer: A critical appraisal; Quality of life measures used in radiation therapy trials for patients with metastatic spinal cord compression (MSCC): A literature review; Improving cancer pain management in the home; An investigation into registered nurse awareness of & practice related to cancer pain; Gender difference in the Edmonton Symptom Assessment System (ESAS) scores in patients with advanced cancer; Determining the accuracy of health care professionals in predicting the survival of patients with advanced metastatic cancer; Projected referral for health care services in an out-patient palliative radiotherapy clinic; The palliative performance scale: Examining its correlation to Karnofsky performance scale in an outpatient palliative radiation oncology clinic; Painful diabetic neuropathy; The body posture pain scale: Assessment of pediatric sickle cell pain intensity; Impact of a new care pathway on attendance on a residential chronic pain management programme (PMP); Labour epidural analgesia: Do we monitor their efficacy?; Prevalence of pain in family practice. Gender issues; Patient & clinician global ratings of change following interdisciplinary treatment for chronic pain; Assessment of different anesthetic techniques in mandibular molars with irreversible pulpitis; Antecedents of chronic pain: Patient view on cause; A network of psychologists specialized in treating pain patients in the North of the Netherlands; The impact of opioid use on treatment completion & outcomes in patients undergoing a multidisciplinary rehabilitation program for chronic pain; Effect of the combined intra-articular administration of morphine & methylprednisolone in patients with knee osteoarthritis; Comparison of the analgesic effect of systemic & regional clonidine for upper limb surgery; The holistic vulva clinic. An integrative approach to the treatment of the genital, sexual & non-sexual pain & the other health problems related to the female gender; Depression in cancer pain patients; Prescription patterns of analgesics & pain relief for hospitalized trauma patients in a tertiary care teaching hospital of a Caribbean developing country; Confirmatory factor analysis of brief pain inventory (BPI) functional interference clusters in patients with bone metastases; Suppression of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis after epidural glucocorticoid injection. Identification of inherent at-risk patients; Specialised pain therapy from the general practitioners' perspective: A qualitative assessment; Sociodemographic factors in a pediatric chronic pain clinic: The roles of age, sex & minority status in pain & health characteristics; Development & initial validation of the Batten's Observational Pain Scale: A preliminary study; The pain behaviour of children with neuronal ceroid lupofiscinosis: Variation due to child factors & pain history; Radiation-induced nausea & vomiting in a palliative radiotherapy clinic: A preliminary analysis; Profile of pain & use of pharmacological & non-pharmacological methods for relieving pain in older persons in nursing homes; Effect of fentanyl addition to bupivacaine on cervical plexus block for carotid endarterectomy; Systematic review on the literature on culture & pain; Pain management: Is it a human right?; Understanding pain from torture: Cultural considerations; Fibromyalgia syndrome & cognitivo-affective disorders; Physical activity for agitation & pain in dementia; The show must go on: Psychological perspectives on dancing with pain; Music therapy & pain; Correlation of depression, quality of life & pain in cancer patients; The effects of acupressure in older adults with chronic knee pain: depression, pain, activities of daily living & mobility; The "anaesthetic properties" of the images in regard to their affective & aesthetic content: Preliminary results; Art therapy: In the heart of pain, acceptance via creativity; About the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.3.2012
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	254 x 178 mm
Gewicht	1092 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Schmerztherapie
ISBN-10	1-61209-972-6 / 1612099726
ISBN-13	978-1-61209-972-9 / 9781612099729
Zustand	Neuware