Pain management : expanding the pharmacological options
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Gary McCleane
- ناشر : Chichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2008
- شابک / ISBN : 9781405178235
Description
Foreword. 1 Introduction. 2 Conventional Pain Treatment. 3 Using Drugs Outside Their Licensed Indication. Part 1. 4 Topical Nitrates. 5 Topical Tricyclic Antidepressants. 6 Topical Opioids. 7 Topical Local Anesthetics. 8 Topical Glutamate Receptor Antagonists. 9 Topical, Oral, and Perineural-Adrenoreceptor Agonists. 10 Lamotrigine. 11 5HT3 Antagonists. 12 Cholecystokinin Antagonists. 13 Parenteral Anti-epileptics. 14 Intravenous Lidocaine. 15 L-Carnitine. 16 Other Pharmacological Options (Botulinum, Cimetidine, Glucosamine). Part 2. 17 Neuropathic Pain. 18 Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. 19 Joint Pain. 20 Fracture Pain. 21 Postoperative Pain. 22 Fibromyalgia. 23 Muscle Spasm and Pain. 24 Tendinopathies. 25 Low Back Pain. 26 Cancer Pain. Appendix: Suggested Doses and Modes of Administration of Novel Pharmacological Options. Index.
Conventional pharmaceutical approaches to pain management are not always successful. Using only those medications that have an official indication for a certain condition reduces substantially the chance of the patient gaining pain relief and may expose them to intolerable side effects
