Essentials of Pain Management is a concise, evidence-based guide that stresses a multidisciplinary approach to pain and provides a thorough review of clinical principles and procedures. Edited by faculty from Yale and Harvard Medical Schools, Essentials provides a practical approach to pain management for every type of pain management practitioner. Features: * Extensive case vignettes illustrating specific pain management challenges and solutions * Multiple-choice questions with detailed answers useful for exam preparation * In-depth discussions of palliative medicine, end-of-life care, physical therapy and acupuncture, behavioral therapy, and pediatric and elderly pain * A formulary of commonly used drugs for an easy go-to reference for every office * Special considerations for nurses and dentists From career choices in pain management to the specific drugs, procedures, and therapies that can alleviate pain, Essentials of Pain Management is a valuable resource for all pain management practitioners.

Contents
Preface to the Case Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Section I Introduction
1 Introduction to Pain Management, Historical Perspectives,
and Careers in PainManagement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Erica Bial and Doris K. Cope
2 Multidisciplinary Approach to PainManagement . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Debebe Fikremariam and Mario Serafini
Section II Anatomy and Physiology
3 Anatomic and Physiologic Principles of Pain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Xing Fu, Dan Froicu, and Raymond Sinatra
4 Acute and Chronic Mechanisms of Pain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Amit Mirchandani, Marianne Saleeb, and Raymond Sinatra
Section III Clinical Principles
5 Assessment of Pain: Complete Patient Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Amitabh Gulati and Jeffrey Loh
6 Diagnostic Imaging in PainManagement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Timothy Malhotra
Section IV Pharmacology
7 Opioids: Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Charles J. Fox III, Henry A. Hawney, and Alan D. Kaye
8 Opioids: Basic Concepts in Clinical Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Geremy L. Sanders, Michael P. Sprintz, Ryan P. Ellender,
Alecia L. Sabartinelli, and Alan D. Kaye
9 Nonopioid Analgesics in PainManagement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Jack M. Berger and Shaaron Zaghi
10 Alternative and Herbal Pharmaceuticals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Alan D. Kaye, Muhammad Anwar, and Amir Baluch
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11 Importance of Placebo Effect in PainManagement . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Charles Brown and Paul J. Christo
Section V Non-pharmacologicManagement of Pain
12 Psychological and Psychosocial Evaluation of the Chronic
Pain Patient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Raphael J. Leo,Wendy J. Quinton, and Michael H. Ebert
13 Interventional PainManagement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Michael A. Cosgrove, David K. Towns, Gilbert J. Fanciullo,
and Alan D. Kaye
14 Functional Restoration of Patients with Pain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Ali Nemat and Yogi Matharu
15 Occupational Therapy in Client-Centered PainManagement . . . . . . 317
Janet S. Jedlicka, Anne M. Haskins, and Jan E. Stube
16 Acupuncture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Shu-Ming Wang
17 Nursing Perspective on PainManagement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
EnaWilliams
18 Post-surgical PainManagement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
Darin J. Correll
Section VI Acute PainManagement
19 PainManagement for Trauma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
Neil Sinha and Steven P. Cohen
20 Regional Anesthesia Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
Thomas Halaszynski, Richa Wardhan, and Elizabeth Freck
21 Principles of Ultrasound Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469
Thomas Halaszynski
22 Labor PainManagement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501
Ferne Braverman
Section VII Chronic PainManagement
23 Neuropathic Pain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515
GeraldW. Grass
24 Ischemic and Visceral Pain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545
Robby Romero, Dmitri Souzdalnitski, and Trevor Banack
25 Fibromyalgia, Arthritic, andMyofascial Pain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557
Nalini Vadivelu and Richard D. Urman
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26 Head, Neck, and Back Pain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567
May L. Chin
27 Headache . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585
Mani K.C. Vindhya, Prasad Nidadavolu, and Chris James
28 Management of Cancer Pain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597
Joseph N. Atallah
29 Ethics in PainManagement and End of Life Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629
Jack M. Berger
Section VIII Additional Topics
30 Pediatric PainManagement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639
Arlyne K. Thung, Rae Ann Kingsley, and Brenda C. McClain
31 Managing Pain in the Addicted Patient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671
Susan Dabu-Bondoc, Robert Zhang, and Nalini Vadivelu
32 PainManagement in Elderly Patients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699
Shamsuddin Akhtar, Roberto Rappa, and M. Khurrum Ghori
33 Management of Oro-dental Pain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715
Amarender Vadivelu
34 Drug Formulary for PainManagement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725
Anita Hickey and Ian Laughlin
Appendix: Multiple Choice Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747
Sreekumar Kunnumpurath
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 783