Effective Treatments for Pain in the Older Patient

ISBN-13: 9781493988259 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 197 str.

Paul J. Christo; Grace A. Cordts

Opis

This clinically focused book provides the essential modalities for managing pain in older patients. Practical, concise and authored by leaders in pain medicine, this will serve as an invaluable guide to practitioners that care for older people.

Recenzje

"Pain management is made more complex in elderly patients due to a wide variety of comorbidities, such as impaired metabolism, sensitivity to medications side effects, communication impairment, and memory loss. This appears to be the only textbook that uniquely addresses the topic. I applaud the editors and authors for attempting to tackle this void. ... The text is generally well written and might be appropriate for practitioners from internal medicine, geriatrics, physiatry, and pain medicine." (M. Kwesi Kwofie, Anesthesia & Analgesia, Vol. 130 (5), May, 2020)

Spis treści

1              Effective Approaches for Pain Relief in Older Adults

2              Pain Assessment in Older Adults

3              Acute Pain Management in Older Adults

4              Unique Physiologic Considerations

5              Specific Conditions Causing Persistent Pain in Older Adults

6              Antiepileptics

7              A Biopsychosocial Perspective on the Assessment and Treatment of Chronic Pain in Older Adults

8              Interventional Strategies for Pain in Older Adults

9              Assessing and Managing Addiction Risk in Older Adults with Pain

O autorze

Grace A. Cordts, MD, MPH, MS

Medical Director

OptumCare, Pittsburgh

Pennsylvania, USA

Paul J. Christo, MD, MBA, 

Associate Professor

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine

Division of Pain Medicine

Baltimore, Maryland 

Blurb

This clinically focused book provides the essential modalities for managing pain in older patients. Chapters cover a variety of topics important for clinicians, including effective approaches, evaluation, acute and chronic pain, interventional strategies, and addiction issues. Complexities in assessing and treating pain when presented with multiple comorbidities and the unique physical, cognitive, and sensory changes that occur in the elderly are discussed in detail. Practical, concise and authored by leaders in pain medicine, this will serve as an invaluable guide to practitioners that care for older people.