Main description:

This book describes bedside pain management interventions for basic clinical situations commonly encountered during the inpatient care. It aims to provide clinicians with real-world practical information, including patient selection, required equipment, and procedure guidance, that will optimize patient management. Each chapter addresses a particular procedure or a set of procedures, with specialties selected according to the subject matter.

Physicians of any specialty practicing in hospital settings, residents, fellows in training, medical students, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, psychology, chiropractors, physical therapy and integrative medicine specialists will find this text to be comprehensive and practical.

Contents:

Part 1. Challenges of inpatient management of pain.

Molecular and physiological mechanisms of acute and chronic pain

Assessment scales, clinical tools and techniques

Challenges of the management of acute pain in hospitalized patients with preexisting chronic pain, barriers to adequate pain control in hospital settings

Patient satisfaction with inpatient management of pain.

Limitations of inpatient pharmacological treatment: opioids, NSAIDs, Antidepressants, Anti-anxiety medications, Membrane stabilizers, Antipsychotics, other medications.

Patient groups with limited tolerance to pharmacologic management (end-organ failure, elderly, children, pregnant, breastfeeding patients, patients with mental conditions etc.)

Part 2. Bedside interventions for special populations of patients

Special considerations for bedside pain management interventions for elderly

Special considerations for bedside pain management interventions for children

Bedside interventions for parturients

Neuraxial anesthesia

Bedside perioperative interventions

Bedside interventions in patients with implanted pain management devices, including intrathecal pumps, spinal cord stimulators, and peripheral nerve stimulator

Portable sonography and landmark techniques for bedside interventional procedures.

Complications of bedside interventional procedures. Local anesthetic toxicity.

Part 3. Bedside Pain Management Interventions.

Bedside injections for head and neck pain

Bedside injections for shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand pain.

Bedside injections for upper back pain

Bedside injections for thoracic pain

Bedside injections for abdominal pain

Bedside injections for pelvic pain

Bedside injections for lower back and sacral pain

Bedside injections for hip, knee, and foot pain

Bedside injections for lower extremity pain

Bedside Chiropractic and Osteopathic Manipulations

Bedside Pain Psychology Interventions

Bedside Physical Therapy Interventions

Bedside Integrative Medicine Interventions