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Pain management : expanding the pharmacological options
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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 ...
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. This pio.
Details
- Creator
- Gary J. McCleane
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Chichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2008
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (viii, 192 pages) : illustrations
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- ISBNs
- 9781405178235, 9781282034303, 1444300806, 1444300792, 140517823X, 9781444300802, 1282034308, 9786612034305, 9781444300796
- OCLC
- ocn352831380, ocn438702413
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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 a-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
Subjects
- Analgesics.
- Analgesia.
- Pain -- Treatment.
- Pain -- drug therapy.
Medical Subject Heading
- Drug Therapy -- methods.
Medical Subject Heading