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Record Nr.

UNINA9910146119703321

Autore

McCleane Gary

Titolo

Pain management [[electronic resource] ] : expanding the pharmacological options / / Gary J. McCleane

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2008

ISBN

1-282-03430-8

9786612034305

1-4443-0079-2

1-4443-0080-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 p.)

Disciplina

615.783

615/.783

Soggetti

Analgesics

Analgesia

Pain - Treatment

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 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 α-Adrenoreceptor Agonists; 10 Lamotrigine; 11 5HT[sub(3)] 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 Syndrome19 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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; Z

Sommario/riassunto

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. However evidence now exists on the use of other drugs, produced for non-pain conditions, and how they can substantially increase the chances of pain relief. Covering the most recent developments in this field, McCleane offers an alternative solution to pain treatment when conventional treatments fail.