Buch, Englisch, 156 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 176 g
Buch, Englisch, 156 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 176 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-976888-2
Verlag: OUP US
Opioid treatment for chronic pain has been popularized over the past few decades, and opioid usage has increased several-fold. Opioid treatment of chronic pain increased for several reasons: a sense that chronic pain had previously been undertreated; strong underwriting of medical education by drug companies anxious to sell new "designer" opioids; lifting of the stigma associated opioids, particularly as pain advocacy reestablished opioids as necessary and
appropriate treatment for acute and cancer pain. What has emerged is that there are several limitations to chronic opioid treatment. What has become clear in this unfortunate history is that non-specialists were persuaded to prescribe opioids before they could possibly understand the complexity of the
treatment. So great were the pressures to prescribe, from drug companies, advocates, and many well-meaning people who saw opioids as the panacea for suffering, opioids were prescribed indiscriminately. It became almost impossible to deny opioids without seeming inhumane. What we learned though, is that while carefully selected and managed opioid therapy can benefit certain patients, casual use fails in several respects. What is needed then is a vast educational effort to help clinicians
understand some of the complexities of opioid therapy, and in particular, how to select patients, and subsequently manage and monitor so as to achieve continued efficacy without losing control of pain and drug use. While no one educational effort can solve the whole problem, this book aims to provide
clinicians with expert opinion on how to manage certain common scenarios involving opioid management of chronic pain. It will provide the reader not only with an easy reference to the management of common clinical scenarios where opioids are involved, but also with in depth analysis of the difficult issues surrounding a treatment that is both uniquely effective and potentially harmful.
Zielgruppe
Pain clinicians (physicians, nurses); Psychiatrists; Family Medicine; Anesthesiologists; Neurologists; Pediatricians; Rheumatologists; Surgeons; Clinical educators; Medical and nursing students; Medical residents and fellows
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Weitere Infos & Material
1. Pain without a Pathoanatomic Diagnosis
Catherine F. Stannard
2. Opioid Therapy of Chronic Pain in Persons with known Substance Use Disorder
Seddon R. Savage and Julie Franklin Sorensen
3. Screening before Embarking: How to Screen for Addiction Risk in Opioid Prescribing
Robert N. Jamison, Edward Michna, and Juliana Serraillier
4. Functional Pain Syndromes
Claudia Sommer and Nurcan Üçeyler
5. Chronic Opioid Therapy in Childhood and Adolescence
Stephen C. Brown, Lisa Isaac, Patricia A. McGrath, and Jennifer Tyrrell
6. Debilitating Pain
Eija Kalso
7. Chronic Cancer Pain
Shane Brogan and Perry G. Fine
8. Pain After Trauma (including PTSD)
William C. Becker and Robert D. Kerns
9. Opioid Therapy in Chronic Painful Disease
Daniel Krashin and Andrea M. Trescot
10. United States Workers Compensation and Disability
James P. Robinson
11. Using Measurement-based Tools to Improve Pain Care
David Tauben
12. Not a Suitable Candidate: Saying No
Jane Ballantyne
