Buch, Englisch, 148 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 196 g
Buch, Englisch, 148 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 196 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-852703-9
Verlag: OUP Oxford
This title is a practical, clinically-based guide to nerve blocking techniques that are available in current practice. Nerve blocks can be used to determine the source of pain, to treat painful conditions that respond to nerve blocks, to predict how the pain will respond to long-term treatments, and to prevent pain following procedures.
In most patients, pain medication, along with physical therapy and supportive counselling, adequately controls the pain of terminal disease, but in some cases pain medication fails or produces unacceptable side effects, and other more invasive interventio
1. Philosophy behind the use of interventional pain management techniques in palliative care; 2. Defining the problem; 3. Assessment of pain; 4. Pain syndromes; 5. Choice of technique; 6. Simple peripheral nerve blocks and injections; 7. Regional nerve blocks; 8. Spinal drug delivery; 9. Electrical stimulation techniques; 10. Ethical issues
