Gilbert Park, G. R. Park, Barbara Fulton

The Management of Acute Pain

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Management of Acute Pain provides simple, practical guidelines for those who prescribe and administer drugs for acute pain relief, particularly junior medical and nursing staff. The new edition has been extensively revised to take account of drug developments in recent years. The book will be valuable for House officers, SHO's, physiotherapists, and palliative care nurses.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9780192624673
• ISBN-10: 0192624679
• Artikelnr.: 21897204

Autorenporträt

Gilbert Park and Barbara Fulton are two of the UK's leading experts on pain management.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Why is pain control a problem?
2: What is pain?
3: Why treat pain?
4: Psychological aspects of acute pain?
5: Principles of analgesic drug administration
6: Opioid pharmacology
7: Useful opioid analgesic drugs
8: Intramuscular administration of analgesics
9: Opioid infusions
10: Patient-controlled analgesic (PCA) systems
11: Inflammation and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
12: Pharmacology of local anaesthetic agents
13: Local anaesthetic techniques
14: An introduction to epidural and spinal analgesia
15: Spinal anaesthesia
16: Epidural anaesthesia
17: Epidural and intrathecal opioids
18: Inhalational techniques and alternative therapies
19: Antiemetic drugs
20: Pain control in special situations
21: The acute pain service
22: Case studies in pain management
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