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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788155603321

Titolo

Adjuvant analgesics / / edited by David Lussier, Pierre Beaulieu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-19-939218-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

Oxford American Pain Library

Disciplina

616.0472

Soggetti

Chronic pain

Analgesics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Rational pharmacotherapy of pain / David Lussier and Pierre Beaulieu -- Classification of analgesics / David Lussier and Pierre Beaulieu -- Antidepressants analgesics / Peter Watson -- Analgesic anticonvulsants / David Lussier -- Cannabinoids as adjuvant analgesics / Pierre Beaulieu and Julie Desroches -- Local anesthetics / Patrick Friederich -- NMDA antagonists as analgesic adjuvants / Philippe Richebé, Laurent Bollag, Cyril Rivat -- Topical adjuvant analgesics / Jana Sawynok -- Choice of analgesic based on type of pain -- Drug-drug interactions of adjuvant analgesic agents / David R.P. Guay.