Pain Management

This practical and up-to-date resource covers a broad spectrum of issues related to pain management. The first section presents the concepts of pain management, including physiology, theory, family treatment, and ethical decision making. Section two discusses pain management for infants and children. Section three then gives special attention to commonly encountered issues for selected patients, such as cancer patients, the elderly and burn patients. The book features practical and up-to-date approaches to pain assessment and management; discussion on pain issues, such as pain in infants, arthritis pain, low back pain, and surgical pain; the physiological and psychological aspects of pain; and an in-depth discussion of ethical decision making, including case-study dilemmas.