Evidence-Based Chronic Pain Management
Published on 5. March 2010
Book
Hardback
464 pages
978-1-4051-5291-4 (ISBN)
Description
A genuine evidence-based text for optimum pain relief in various chronic conditions
* Contributes an important advance in the practice of pain management providing the information on which to build more coherent and standardised strategies for relief of patient suffering
* Answers questions about which are the most effective methods, AND those which are not effective yet continue to be used
* Includes discussion of the positive and the negative evidence, and addresses the grey areas where evidence is ambivalent
* Written by the world's leading experts in evidence-based pain management this is a seminal text in the field of pain
Reviews / Votes
"Whether you are new to the field of nursing, or an experienced practitioner, this book is an ideal resource ... This is an important book for libraries." (Primary Health Care, 1 December 2011)More details
Product info
gebunden
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 253 mm
Width: 199 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
1062 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4051-5291-4 (9781405152914)
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Cathy Stannard | Eija Kalso | Jane Ballantyne
Evidence-Based Chronic Pain Management
E-Book
08/2011
Wiley-Blackwell
€177.99
Available for download
Cathy Stannard | Eija Kalso | Jane Ballantyne
Evidence-Based Chronic Pain Management
E-Book
03/2010
BMJ Books
€177.99
Available for download
Persons
Cathy Stannard, Consultant in Pain Medicine, Pain Clinic, Macmillan Centre, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, UK
Eija Kalso, Professor of pain research and management Pain Clinic, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland
Jane Ballantyne, Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Content
PART 1.
1 Why evidence matters (inlude discussion on hwo to use evidence for the best benefit of the patient).
2 Clinical trial design (include tools for measuring effectiveness, what should be the outcomes) Also, discuss rare complications that don't get into trials/or is this a separate chapter?.
3 Introduction to evaluation of evidence.
4 Neurobiology of pain (maybe move this chapter closer to the beginning?).
5 Pain and suffering in context.
6 Psychology of pain.
PART 2.
7 Spinal pain.
8 Low back pain (Pain related to lumbar spondylosis, Post-surgical back pain, Lumbar radiculopathy).
9 Neck pain (cervical spondylosis, Cervical radiculopathy, Whiplash).
10 Pain associated with Osteoarthritis.
11 Pain associated with Rheumatoid arthritis.
12 Muscular pain (Fibromyalgia, Myofscial pain syndrome, Pain associated with chronic fatigue).
13 Facial pain (Trigeminal neuralgia, Atypical facial pain, TMJ dysfunction).
14 Pelvic and perineal pain (Perineal pain in females, Perineal pain in males).
15 Pain from abdominal viscera.
16 Post-surgical pain syndromes.
17 Neuropathic and central pain syndromes (Postherpetic neuralgia (?acute zoster pain in same chapter), Painful diabetic polyneuropathy, Phantom limb pain, CRPS I and II, Central pain syndromes, Pain associated with spinal cord injury, Pain following stroke, Pain associated with multiple sclerosis).
18 Headache.
19 Chest pain syndromes.
20 Cancer Pain.
PART 3.
This will consist of very short descriptions + good lists of references for the most relevant treatment modalities