The third edition of this book shows maturation. We, the editors, have changed the name to Essentials of Pain Medicine to emphasize its mission: the discussion of pain and its management. Consonant with this objective, we have deleted several chapters on regional anesthesia, including chapters on local anesthetics, spinal anesthesia, epidural anesthesia, combined spinal-epidural anesthesia, and caudal anesthesia, as well as chapters on complications of or controversies surrounding neuraxial and peripheral nerve blockade. We simply feel these topics are covered fully in textbooks on regional anesthesia. Realizing that the pain medicine practitioner performs peripheral nerve blocks, we updated the chapters on this topic. Yet, pain medicine has expanded in its scope since the previous edition. We therefore have added chapters on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and pain management, chronic pain after surgery, joint injections, and ultrasound-guided interventional pain procedures.
All the chapters are revised and updated. Key points have been added at the end of the chapters. In light of the complexity of pain and its management, we have added an editor, Dr. Steven P. Cohen, and Drs. Robert W. Hurley, Samer Narouze, Khalid M. Malik, and Kenneth D. Candido as associate editors. They are all experts in specific areas of pain medicine. We welcome them and appreciate their contributions.
The editors and associate editors of the third edition of Essentials of Pain Medicine have more than 100 years’ clinical experience and have witnessed tremendous improvements in pain management. Once reliant on drugs that were ineffective or saddled with numerous side effects, we now employ drugs that are effective and have minimal side effects. The next few years will bring about the use of receptor-specific medications. Interventional procedures have progressed from blind approaches to fluoroscopy-guided techniques. Today, the use of ultrasound is generating intense interest within the pain medicine community. To the patient suffering from pain, there is continued hope. Indeed, the future looks promising.
Key Features
- Organized in a concise, practical quick-reference format.
- All chapters are brief and easy to read quickly.
- Offers specific strategies for the evaluation and management of a full range of pain syndromes, including cancer pain.
- Features over 230 diagrams, illustrations, summary charts and tables that clarify the information and make it easy to apply.
- Discusses the latest drugs and therapeutic approaches, such as acupuncture.
- Presents the management of pain for every setting where it is practiced, including the emergency room, the critical care unit, and the pain clinic.
Website Features
- Consult the book from any computer at home, in your office, or at any practice location.
- Instantly locate the answers to your clinical questions via a simple search query.
- Quickly find out more about any bibliographical citation by linking to its MEDLINE abstract.
New to this edition
- Includes new topics such as:
- imaging in pain medicine,
- radiation safety,
- issues associated with the use of narcotics,
- intraarticular and intraperitoneal use of opioids,
- pain management in the emergency room and in the intensive care unit,
- pain management issues during pregnancy,
- geriatric pain, and
- hospice care and end-of-life issues.
- New chapters on interventional procedures include:
- discography,
- intradiscal electrothermal coagulation (IDET),
- vertebroplasty,
- piriformis injections,
- truncal blocks,
- neuraxial blocks, and
- anticoagulants.
Contents
SECTION I - Basic Considerations
- Chapter 1 - Anatomy and physiology of somatosensory and pain processing
- Chapter 2 - Neurochemistry of somatosensory and pain processing
- Chapter 3 - Taxonomy: definition of pain terms and chronic pain syndromes
SECTION II - Clinical Evaluation and Diagnostic Examinations
- Chapter 4 - Physical examination of the patient with pain
- Chapter 5 - Pain assessment
- Chapter 6 - Psychological evaluation and testing
- Chapter 7 - Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders and pain management
- Chapter 8 - Neurophysiologic testing for pain
- Chapter 9 - Anatomy, imaging, and common pain-generating degenerative pathologies of the spine
- Chapter 10 - Determination of disability
SECTION III - Pharmacology and Pharmacologic Modalities
- Chapter 11 - Major opioids in pain management
- Chapter 12 - Opioids used for mild to moderate pain
- Chapter 13 - Risk stratification and management of opioids
- Chapter 14 - Legal and regulatory issues in pain management
- Chapter 15 - Psychopharmacology for pain medicine
- Chapter 16 - Membrane stabilizers
- Chapter 17 - Nonopioid analgesics: nsaids, cox-2 inhibitors, and acetaminophen
- Chapter 18 - Myofascial pain
- Chapter 19 - Pharmacology for the interventional pain physician
SECTION IV - Therapeutic Interventions
- Chapter 20 - Diagnostic nerve blocks
- Chapter 21 - Neurosurgical procedures for treatment of intractable pain
- Chapter 22 - Physical medicine and rehabilitation approaches to pain management
- Chapter 23 - Acupuncture
- Chapter 24 - Psychological interventions for chronic pain
- Chapter 25 - Substance use disorders and detoxification
SECTION V - Perioperative Pain Management
- Chapter 26 - Pain management in the emergency department
- Chapter 27 - Preemptive analgesia
- Chapter 28 - Perioperative nonopioid infusions for postoperative pain management
- Chapter 29 - Patient-controlled analgesia
- Chapter 30 - Intrathecal opioid injections for postoperative pain
- Chapter 31 - Epidural opioids for postoperative pain
- Chapter 32 - Intra-articular and intraperitoneal opioids for postoperative pain
- Chapter 33 - Continuous peripheral nerve blocks
- Chapter 34 - Pediatric postoperative pain
- Chapter 35 - Chronic pain after surgery
- Chapter 36 - Pain management during pregnancy and lactation
- Chapter 37 - Pain control in the critically ill patient
SECTION VI - Chronic Pain Syndromes
- Chapter 38 - Migraine headache and cluster
- Chapter 39 - Tension-type headache, chronic tension-type headache, and other headache
- Chapter 40 - Postmeningeal puncture headache and spontaneous intracranial hypotension
- Chapter 41 - Cervicogenic headache
- Chapter 42 - Orofacial pain
- Chapter 43 - Overview of low back pain disorders
- Chapter 44 - Interlaminar epidural steroid injections for lumbosacral radicular pain
- Chapter 45 - Selective nerve root blocks and transforaminal epidural steroid injections
- Chapter 46 - Facet syndrome: facet joint injections, medial branch blocks, and radiofrequency denervation
- Chapter 47 - Pain originating from the buttock: sacroiliac joint syndrome and piriformis syndrome
- Chapter 48 - Myofascial pain syndrome
- Chapter 49 - Fibromyalgia
- Chapter 50 - Complex regional pain syndrome
- Chapter 51 - Herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia
- Chapter 52 - Postamputation pain
- Chapter 53 - Central pain states
- Chapter 54 - Pelvic pain
- Chapter 55 - Painful peripheral neuropathies
- Chapter 56 - Entrapment neuropathies
- Chapter 57 - Chronic pain management in children and adolescents
- Chapter 58 - Geriatric pain
SECTION VII - Interventional Techniques for Pain Management
- Chapter 59 - Joint injections
- Chapter 60 - Pulsed radiofrequency, water-cooled radiofrequency, and cryoneurolysis
- Chapter 61 - Spinal cord stimulation
- Chapter 62 - Peripheral nerve stimulation
- Chapter 63 - Implanted drug delivery systems for the control of chronic pain
- Chapter 64 - Discography
- Chapter 65 - Intradiscal techniques: intradiscal electrothermal therapy, biacuplasty, percutaneous decompression techniques
- Chapter 66 - Osteoporosis, vertebroplasty, and kyphoplasty
- Chapter 67 - Ultrasound-guided sympathetic blocks: stellate ganglion and celiac plexus block
- Chapter 68 - Fluoroscopy and radiation safety
SECTION VIII - Cancer Pain
- Chapter 69 - Approach to the management of cancer pain
- Chapter 70 - Management of pain at end of life
- Chapter 71 - Neurolytic visceral sympathetic blocks
- Chapter 72 - Central and peripheral neurolysis
SECTION IX - Nerve Blockade
- Chapter 73 - Head and neck blocks
- Chapter 74 - Brachial plexus blocks: techniques above the clavicle
- Chapter 75 - Brachial plexus blocks: techniques below the clavicle
- Chapter 76 - Truncal blocks: intercostal, paravertebral, interpleural, suprascapular, ilioinguinal, and iliohypogastric nerve blocks
- Chapter 77 - Blocks of the lumbar plexus and its branches
- Chapter 78 - Sciatic nerve block and ankle block
- Chapter 79 - Peripheral sympathetic blocks
- Chapter 80 - Anticoagulants and neuraxial and peripheral nerve blocks
About the Authors
- Honorio T. Benzon, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology, Senior Associate Chair for Academic Affairs, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.
- Srinivasa N. Raja, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine, and Neurology, Director of Pain Research, Division of Pain Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
- Spencer S. Liu, MD, Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology, Attending Anesthesiologist, Director of Acute Pain Service, Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York.
- Scott M. Fishman, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Chief, Division of Pain Medicine, Vice Chair, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, California.
- Steven P. Cohen, MD, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine; Director of Medical Education, Pain Management Division, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; Professor of Anesthesiology and Director of Pain Research, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland.
Product Details
- Hardcover: 688 pages
- Publisher: Saunders; 3 edition (2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1437722423
- ISBN-13: 978-1437722420
- Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.6 x 1 inches
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