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Pain Medicine at a Glance. Edition No. 1. At a Glance

  • Book

  • 160 Pages
  • December 2021
  • John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • ID: 5838257
Pain Medicine at a Glance

The market-leading at a Glance series is popular among healthcare students and newly qualified practitioners for its concise, simple approach and excellent illustrations.

Each bite-sized chapter is covered in a double-page spread with clear, easy-to-follow diagrams, supported by succinct explanatory text.

Covering a wide range of topics, books in the at a Glance series are ideal as introductory texts for teaching, learning and revision, and are useful throughout university and beyond.Everything you need to know about Pain Medicine... at a Glance!

Pain Medicine at a Glance is a user-friendly, visual introduction to the impact of pain in various clinical care settings, focusing on primary care needs. Aligned with learning objectives developed by the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, this authoritative guide covers the basic forms and pathophysiology of pain, the clinical skills necessary for delivering excellent care, pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments, and a variety of special cases such as healthcare ethics, integrative care, and treatment planning for chronic pain self-management therapy and the management of pain in children and older adults.

A new addition to the market-leading at a Glance series, the text offers concise and accessible chapters, full-color illustrations, self-assessment questions, and easy-to-follow diagrams. Topics include pain assessment, cognitive factors that influence pain, applying behavioral perspectives on pain, managing opioids and other pharmacological therapies, treating acute pain in patients with substance abuse issues, and more. Perfect for learning, revision, and teaching, this book: - Provides a foundation of clinical and basic science knowledge about pain and its mechanisms - Describes major forms of pain, including surgical, orofacial, musculoskeletal, and obstetric pain - Offers advice on fostering empathy and compassionate practices in pain medicine - Covers non-pharmacological treatments such as physical therapy, hydrotherapy, meditation, acupuncture, massage, and various focal treatments - Includes discussion of recent advances and new discoveries in pain science

Pain Medicine at a Glance is the ideal companion for medical and healthcare students, junior doctors, advanced practice providers, nurse practitioners, and others involved in diagnosing and treating pain-associated illness. All of our books are developed in collaboration with students. This means that our books are always published with you, the student, in mind. This book is also available as an e-book.

Table of Contents

PAIN MEDICINE At-A-Glance Table of Contents

 Dr. Beth Brianna Hogans, M.D., Ph.D

I Pain Basics

1 What is pain, how do we assess it?

2 Nociceptive processing, how does pain occur?

3 What are the major types of pain?

4 How prevalent is pain, what are the common forms?

5 How do we resolve dilemmas in pain?

6 What are the big challenges in pain?

7 Cognitive factors that influence pain

II Pain Clinical skills 8 Managing pain safely: diagnosis and treatment

9 Gathering the history with a pain narrative

10 Assessing pain in those with communication barriers

11 Examination skills I: Observation and affect

12 Examination skills II: Inspection and manual skills

13 Knowledge, skills, and compassionate practices

14 Counseling and shared decision-making: applying psychological approaches in primary care for pain

15 Communicating with teams of patients with pain

16 Planning therapy: coordinated, comprehensive care

III Pain Pharmacology 17 Basic considerations for pharmacological therapy - balancing mechanisms of drugs and disease

18 Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and acetaminophen (over-the-counter analgesia)

19 Neuromodulating agents: pain-active anti-depressants and anti-convulsants

20 Opioids - the basics and perioperative pain control

21 Opioids - the details: equianalgesia and safe use

22 Opioids - advanced practice - alternative delivery: IV, PCA, epidural

23 Focal treatments for pain in primary practice: topical, iontophoretic, basic injections, TENS

24 Interventional treatments and surgery for pain

IV Non-pharm. treatments 25 Activating treatment: Physical/occupational therapy, hydrotherapy, exercise: walking, yoga, chi gong

26 Cognitive therapies: CBT, ACT, reframing

27 Manual therapies: massage: trigger points, acupressure, chiropractic, stretching, inversion

28 Therapies that utilize descending pain pathways: video, music, distraction, acupuncture, meditation

V Major pain forms 29 Acute and Chronic pain: the basics

30 Surgical and procedural pain

31 Musculoskeletal pain

32 Orofacial pain

33 Neck Pain, cervical and thoracic spine pain

34 Arm Pain

35 Low back pain

36 Back pain emergencies

37 Radiating leg, buttock, and groin pain

38 Knee pain

39 Foot and ankle pain

40 Headache emergencies

41 Headache - basic diagnosis and management

42 Headache - chronic pain and the acute flare

43 Visceral pain

44 Pelvic pain

45 Exceptional causes of severe, chronic pain: CRPS, fibromyalgia, erythromelalgia

VI Special patient groups and clinical contexts 46 Management of pain with substance abuse

47 Pain at the end of life, opioid rotation

48 Opioids for chronic pain: preventing iatrogenic OUD

49 Tapering opioids in patients with pain

50 Pain in infants, children, and adolescents

51 Pain in older patients

52 Pharmacotherapy in aging, renal & liver dysfunction

53 Pain in pregnancy and the peripeurium

Appendices

 I Sample exam sheet

II Sample pain diary

III Daily stretching guide

IV Patient packet - Your power over pain

V Glossary

Authors

Beth B. Hogans