Fundamentals of pain medicine : how to diagnose and treat your patients /
"Some patients present with a primary complaint of pain while others complain of pain secondary to a more generalized disease process or procedure. As a healthcare professional, you are trained to diagnose the pathology and then treat it. A patient presents with pneumonia, your work-up supports...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia, PA :
Wolters Kluwer Health,
[2014]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Symptoms and conditions
- 1. Musculoskeletal pain : common causes
- 2. Neuropathic pain
- 3. Cancer pain
- 4. Abdominal pain
- 5. Pelvic pain
- 6. Podiatric pain, foot and ankle
- 7. Miscellaneous pain disorders that affect multiple areas of the body
- 8. Postoperative pain
- part II. Noninterventional treatments
- 9. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
- 10. Acetaminophen (Tylenol)
- 11. Topical pain medications
- 12. Muscle relaxants
- 13. Antidepressant medications used for neuropathic pain
- 14. Antiseizure medications used for neuropathic pain
- 15. Opiods
- 16. Patient-controlled analgesia
- 17. Epidural catheter analgesia
- 18. Radiation therapy
- part III. Interventional treatments
- 19. Epidural steroid injections
- 20. Facet joint procedures : facet joint injections, medial branch blocks, and radiofrequency ablation of the medial branches of the spinal nerve roots
- 21. Sacroiliac joint injections
- 22. Trigger point injections for myofascial pain
- 23. Joint and associated bursa injections : shoulders, elboys, hips, and knees
- 24. Sympathetic blocks : stellate, celiac, lumbar, superior hypogastric and ganglion impar
- 25. Vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty
- 26. Injections for headache (occipital nerve blocks and botulinum toxin injections)
- 27. Common nerve blocks
- 28. Discogenic pain : lumbar discography
- 29. Implantable pain devices : spinal cord stimulators
- 30. Implantable pain device : programmable intrathecal pain pumps
- 31. Percutaneous lumbar disc decompression
- part IV. Multimodal approach to pain
- 32. Physical therapy
- 33. Complementary treatments
- 34. Chiropractic treatment
- 35. Avoiding opioid abuse.