Acute Pain Management: A Practical Guide

by Pamela E. Macintyre, Stephan A. Schug

Overview

With a focus on practical acute pain management in adults in the hospital setting, this book provides health professionals with simple and practical information to help them manage patients with acute pain safely and effectively. • Combines evidence-based information with practical guidelines and protocols • Covers the pharmacology of opioids, local anesthetics, and nonopioid and adjuvant analgesic agents • Discusses management of acute pain in both surgical and nonsurgical acute pain settings including in patients with spinal cord or burns injuries and selected medical illnesses • Includes evidence-based information about management of acute pain in some specific patient groups , including the older patient, opioid-tolerant patients, and those with addiction disorders, pregnant or lactating patients and patients with obstructive sleep apnea or who have renal or hepatic impairment • Considers the role of acute pain management in the context of the current opioid epidemic and identifies possible strategies to minimise the risks.

This resource will be helpful to a variety of professionals in assessing and managing acute pain.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367271398
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	06/21/2021
Edition description:	5th ed.
Pages:	338
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Pamela E Macintyre BMebSc, MBBS, MHA, FANZCA, FFPMANZCA Emeritus Consultant Anaesthetist and Pain Medicine Physician, Department of Anaesthesia, Pain Medicine and Hyperbaric Medicine, Royal Adelaide Hospital. Clinical Professor, Discipline of Acute Care Medicine, School of Medicine,University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

Professor Stephan A. Schug, MD, FANZCA, FFPMANZCA, EDPM Emeritus Professor and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Medical School, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

Table of Contents

Preface. Disclosures. Notice. Authors. Introduction. Delivery of Effective Acute Pain Management. Assessment and Monitoring. Pharmacology of Opioids. Pharmacology of Local Anesthetics. Nonopioid and Adjuvant Analgesic Agents. Systemic Routes of Opioid Administration. Patient-Controlled Analgesia. Epidural and Intrathecal Analgesia. Other Regional and Local Analgesia. Nonpharmacological Therapies. Acute Neuropathic Pain. Chronic Postacute Pain. Nonsurgical Acute Pain. More Complex Patients. Opioid Analgesia After Discharge from Hospital. Self-Assessment Questions. Index.

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Gudrun M Jonsdottir, MD, MSc (Yale School of Medicine)
Description: This book is a practical handbook for medical professionals who manage adult patients with acute pain in the hospital setting.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide simple, practical, and easily accessible evidence-based information, example guidelines, and protocols for the practice of pain management for a variety of medical professionals who treat adults with acute pain in the medical and surgical setting.
Audience: The intended audience for the book includes nursing students, medical students, and doctors in training. However, the audience for the practical guide is broad; all medical professionals without special training in pain medicine will find this book useful. The authors have experience in establishing acute pain service (APS).
Features: The book is a practical guide on pain management in the adult non-obstetric patient. Each chapter has multiple subchapters with clear headlines to simplify topic search. There are chapters on broad topics such as pharmacology of analgesic agents, routes of administration, and different types of pain. In addition, there are specialized chapters on advanced topics including complex patients, which are easily applicable to clinical scenarios and settings in which readers might find themselves. The text is supported by a plethora of references that enable readers to further explore certain areas of interest. Each chapter ends with key points that highlight and sum up the important points of the chapter.
Assessment: The book provides information on frequent problems encountered when treating pain in the adult non-obstetric patient. The book is not a classic textbook on pain with a focus on anatomy and neurochemistry, but rather a pure application of the study of pain in the clinical setting and a helpful aid in the most frequently encountered clinical scenarios. The book includes examples of guidelines, protocols, and "standard order forms" from the Central Adelaide Local Health Network, Adelaide, Australia, which could be useful for other APS looking to standardize their practice for improved outcomes. It provides the latest evidence in pain management with references to recent studies (2020). There are a multitude of books on pain management available, but this book is accessible, light in the pocket, easy to navigate, and well written, making it a great resource for all health professionals in training.

Doody's Review Service

3 Stars from Doody

This is an attractive, easy to carry in the white coat pocket, paperback book on pain management written by two directors of pain services, one in Australia and one in the U.S. The aim of the book is to provide nurses, medical students, and doctors in training (interns, house officers, residents, and registrars) with simple and practical information and guidelines for safe and more effective management of conventional methods of analgesia and newer acute pain management techniques. The book will be useful to medical practitioners interested in acute pain management themselves or who want to introduce these services at their institutions. Boxes in each chapter regarding patient-controlled analgesia, epidural narcotics, and appendixes are very useful features of this book. The book covers a lot of pertinent points. The first chapter is quite catchy, mentioning myths that medical students are made to believe, e.g., ^^Pain is not good but at least does no harm.^^ It is a very easy-to-read and carry-along pain management guide. This is a good book for reading during and before acute pain service rotation of housestaff. It is also a good reference source for surgical and general medical staff for knowledge of newer techniques of pain management, indications, and contraindications.

Gita Rupani