1. Introduction -- 2. Delivery of effective acute pain management -- 3. Assessment and monitoring -- 4. Pharmacology of opioids -- 5. Pharmacology of local anesthetics -- 6. Non-opioid and adjuvant analgesic agents -- 7. Systemic routes of opioid administration -- 8. Patient-controlled analgesia -- 9. Epidural and intrathecal analgesia -- 10. Other regional and local analgesia -- 11. Nonpharmacological therapies -- 12. Acute neuropathic and persistent postacute pain -- 13. Nonsurgical acute pain -- 14. More complex patients -- 15. Opioid analgesia after discharge from hospital
Summary
Comprehensive acute pain management no longer means only caring for patients with pain resulting from postoperative and trauma-related causesit now includes managing patients with acute pain arising from a wide variety of conditions
Analysis
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Notes
Previous edition: Edinburgh ; Sydney : Elsevier Saunders, 2007