Cathy Stannard / Eija Kalso / Jane Ballantyne (ed.)

Evidence-Based Chronic Pain Management

Herausgegeben von Stannard, Cathy; Kalso, Eija; Ballantyne, Jane

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A genuine evidence-based text for optimum pain relief in variouschronic conditions

Contributes an important advance in the practice of painmanagement providing the information on which to build morecoherent and standardised strategies for relief of patientsuffering

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 painmanagement this is a seminal text in the field of pain

Produktdetails

• Evidence-Based Medicine
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1A405152910
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 253mm x 199mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1070g
• ISBN-13: 9781405152914
• ISBN-10: 1405152915
• Artikelnr.: 26868199

Autorenporträt

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 Chief, Division of Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School, USA

Inhaltsangabe

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