Essentials of Pain Medicine

"In essence, I consider that this can be looked upson as almost the complete core textbook in pain medicine, with the additional value of a very clear and useful section on regional anesthesia...Established specialists in 'Pain Medicine and Regional Anesthesia' will also find the book useful too because of its concise nature and easy accessibility of individual topics."--"British Journal of Anaesthesia," 2005

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Professor of Anesthesiology Senior Associate Chair for Academic Affairs Feinberg School of Medicine Northwestern University Chief, Division of Pain Medicine Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL

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I. BASIC CONSIDERATIONS

1. Anatomy and Physiology of Somatosensory and Pain Processing
2. The Neurochemistry of Somatosensory and Pain Processing
3. Taxonomy: Definition of Pain Terms and Chronic Pain Syndromes

II. CLINICAL EVALUATION AND DIAGNOSTIC EXAMINATIONS

4. Physical Examination of the Patient with Pain
5. Pain Assessment
6. Psychologic Evaluation and Testing
7. Neurophysiologic Testing for Pain
8. Anatomy, Imaging and Common Pain Generating Degenerative Pathologies of the Spine
9. Determination of Disability

III. PHARMACOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGIC MODALITIES

10. Opioid Receptors
11. Major Opioids in Pain Management
12. Minor and Short-Acting Opioids
13. Opioid Therapy: Adverse Effects Including Addiction
14. Psychopharmacology for Pain Medicine
15. Membrane Stabilizers
16. Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory Drugs and COX-2 Selective Inhibitors
17. Muscle Relaxants
18. Drugs for the Interventional Physician: Botulinum Toxin, Steroids, Radiopaque Dye

IV. THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTIONS

19. Diagnostic Nerve Blocks
20. Neurosurgical Procedures for Treatment of Intractable Pain
21. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Approaches to Pain Management
22. Acupuncture
23. Pyschological Interventions For Chronic Pain
24. Substance Use Disorders and Detoxification

V. PERIOPERATIVE PAIN MANAGEMENT

25. Pain Management in the Emergency Department
26. Preemptive Analgesia: Physiology and Clinical Studies
27. Patient-Controlled Analgesia
28. Intrathecal Opioid Injections for Postoperative Pain
29. Epidural Opioids for Postoperative Pain
30. Intraarticular and Intraperitoneal Opioids for Postoperative Pain
31. Pediatric Postoperative Pain
32. Pain Management During Pregnancy and Lactation
33. Pain Management in the Critically Ill Patient

VI. CHRONIC PAIN SYNDROMES

34. Classification of Headache Disorders
35. Migraine Headache and Cluster Headache
36. Tension Type Headache, Chronic Tension Headache and Other Chronic Headache Types
37. Postdural Puncture Headache and Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension
38. Cervicogenic Headache and Orofacial Pain
39. An Overview of Low Back Pain Disorders
40. Interlaminar Epidural Steroid Injections for Lumbosacral Radiculopathy
41. Selective Nerve Root Blocks and Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injections
42. Facet Joint Pain: Facet Joint Injections and Facet Rhizotomy
43. Pain Originating from the Buttock: Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction and Piriformis Syndrome
44. Myofascial Pain Syndrome
45. Fibromyalgia
46. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS): Terminology and Pathophysiology
47. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS): Diagnosis, and Treatment
48. Herpes Zoster and Postherpetic Neuralgia
49. Phantom Pain
50. Central Pain States
51. Visceral Pain and Pelvic Pain
52. Sickle ...

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