This is a new edition of a highly successful practical guide to acute pain management in the adult patient. The book provides a clear understanding of the current methods of analgesia for all those involved in the pain management team: trainees, residents, practicing anaesthetists and intensivists, junior doctors and nurses.
- Gives comprehensive cover of all of the areas of importance in the management of acute pain
- Presents highly practical information firmly supported by full evaluation of the scientific literature
- Concisely written text supplemented with useful checklists, flow charts and key points that can be readily referred to during treatment of a patient
- Gives a series of acute pain management plans, whilst at the same time discussing controversial areas and possible solutions
- Explores pain control in complex cases - opioid-tolerant patients, pregnant and lactating patients, patients with hepatic and renal impairment and the elderly
- Discusses the important areas of acute neuropathic pain and the transition from acute to persistent pain
- Key self-assessment questions and answers
- New chapters on assessment and monitoring highlight the importance of regular patient assessment and the need to individualize patient care
- Key points added after each major section that indicate the evidence available for that topic and the quality of that evidence
- Chapters on analgesic drugs and techniques have been extensively revised and updated
- New chapters have been added on post-surgical pain syndromes and acute neuropathic pain, and analgesia in specific non-surgical states as well as for some of the more complex cases including acute-on-chronic pain, acute cancer pain or acute pain from a multitude of medical conditions
