This book outlines the problems of postoperative pain and its relief. Both the methods of pain relief and the pharmacology, pharmacodynamics and kinetics of pain-relieving drugs are described, and the book assumes that the reader has only a basic knowledge of the subject. It is aimed primarily at those practitioners and trainees on ward duty and manning post-operative recovery areas who are routinely responsible, in the majority of cases, of providing pain relief for their patients after surgery.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
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Höhe: 220 mm
Breite: 140 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-632-01677-8 (9780632016778)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Pain: the size and measure of the problem; Basic mechanisms of pain and pain relief; Factors affecting the severity of pain; Consequences of postoperative pain; The pharmacology of opioid analgesics; The pharmacology of non-opioid analgesics; The pharmacology of drugs with secondary analgesic properties; The pharmacology of local anaesthetics; Choices in the management of postoperative pain; Regional anaesthesia and analgesia; Spinally applied opioids; Pain relief for problem patients; Pharmacokinetic considerations; What next?.
