Download or read book The Edinburgh Symposium on Pain Control and Medical Education written by Robert G. Twycross and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Patient Z written by Stefan Franzen and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-06-04 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The criminalization of opioid medications has made it all but impossible for pain patients to receive adequate treatment in the United States for more than one hundred years. In 1996, the pain medicine community of doctors attempted to expand the treatment to include patients with severe pain from diseases other than cancer or sickle cell disease. This movement of compassionate care ended definitively in 2016 when a small group of doctors who call themselves Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing (PROP) convinced the Center for Disease Control to take an unusual step to publish new draconian prescribing guidelines. As implemented, current prescribing enforces a hard limit for prescriptions to all patients, regardless of their disease. Furthermore, the new guidelines have not improved either addiction or opioid-overdose rates. Meanwhile, the leaders of PROP are profiting from their role as consultants and expert witnesses for the law firms suing the opioid manufacturers. The book delves into the neurobiology of pain and addiction to explain why pain specialists believe that compassionate care can work. The movement was hijacked by opioid pharmaceutical companies that aggressively marketed opioids to doctors and government agencies that permitted their illegal practices to proceed. This book poses the question: Precisely, how is the massive reduction of prescription medications going to reduce the 80% of the overdose fatalities due to heroin and fentanyl? Instead of curtailing prescription medicine, the appropriate reform would be to treat addiction as a medical condition and include services to prevent and treat addiction as part of pain medicine. Patient Z is a pain patient whose treatment exposes deficiencies in the practice of pain medicine. The story of Patient Z is common to millions of people who have had their pain medication cut in recent years. Persistent pain can affect anyone. Anyone could become Patient Z.
Download or read book Advances in Pain Therapy I written by J. Chrubasik and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1961, when pain therapy was introduced by Bonica, the- re have been world-wide efforts to establish basic regimens for the treatment of chronic pain. Yet many patients still continue to suffer from intractable pain despite the availa- bility of effective treatment that would greatly improve their quality of life. The lack of specialists familiar with recent developments is one of the causes. There is con- sequently a great demand for interdisciplinary pain clinics and specialist training programs. This book constitutes both a valuable introduction and an overview of current basic regimens and the latest sophisticated techniques in pain therapy.
Download or read book Textbook of Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care written by Eduardo Bruera and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 2517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition provides the essential clinical guidance both for those embarking upon a career in palliative medicine and for those already established in the field. A team of international experts here distil what every practitioner needs to know into a practical and reliable resource.
Download or read book Innovative Approaches to Chronic Pain written by Peter Wemyss-Gorman and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2020-12-21 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets out to restore the concept of healing to its place within and beyond pain medicine, in chapters authored by keynote speakers to the British Pain Society's Philosophy and Ethics Special Interest Group. Exploring psychological, spiritual and creative approaches, contributors reflect on therapeutic avenues ranging from the deliberate use of the placebo response and the importance of a caring relationship between patient and practitioner, to the use of knitting as a therapeutic tool. Barriers to the flow of healing such as practitioners' careless use of language and cultural attitudes are identified and contrasted with the need to understand the first-person perspectives of people who are suffering. This book will provide hope and inspiration both to people who have become disillusioned with conventional medical approaches to the relief of their pain, and to health professionals sadly aware of the frequent inadequacy of their efforts to help them.
Download or read book Critical Care of the Burned Patient written by Lindsey T. A. Rylah and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-10-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary account provides an integrated and practical guide to the management and treatment of burns. Experts from all the major disciplines involved in critical care focus their attention on specific problems and areas of treatment involved in the care of burned patients. Although it is essentially a practical guide to the management of thermal injury, with explicit recommendations for courses of treatment, it also provides explanatory background information on the manifestations and clinical consequences of this common source of injury. Among them, the contributors encompass all the major facets of critical care of the burned patient: from initial assessment and monitoring, resuscitation, nutritional aspects, infection, anesthesia and surgical management, right through to postoperative care and prognosis. The volume will be useful to specialists in critical care, intensive and emergency medicine, surgery and anesthesia, and to all staff associated with intensive care and burns units.
Download or read book Back and Neck Pain written by Bill McCarberg and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical handbook is a concise yet authoritative resource on diagnosing and treating back and neck pain.
Download or read book Narrative and Stories in Health Care written by Yasmin Gunaratnam and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-04-09 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of narrative methods has a long history in palliative care, pioneered by Dame Cicely Saunders, founder of the modern hospice movement, Narrative and Stories in Health Care provides a vibrant, multidisciplinary examination of work with narrative and stories in contemporary health and social care, with a focus on the care of people who are ill and dying. It animates the academic literature with provocative 'real-world' examples from international contributors, including palliative care service users and those working in the social and human sciences, medicine, theology, and the creative arts. Narrative and Stories in Health Care addresses and clarifies core issues: What is a narrative? What is a story? What are some of the main methods and models that can be used and for what purposes? What practical and ethical dilemmas can the methods entail in work with illness, death and dying? As well as highlighting the power of stories to create new possibilities, the book also acknowledges the conceptual, methodological and ethnical problems and challenges inherent in narrative work. As the hospice and palliative care movement evolves to meet the challenges of 21st century health care, this fascinating book highlights how narratives and stories can be attended to in ways that are productive, ethical, and caring.
Download or read book Advances in Pain Therapy II written by Joachim Chrubasik and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E.MARTIN Acute pain services are now established worldwide and guidelines have been drawn for the management of acute pain resulting from surgical or medical procedures and trauma. However, the treatment of pain after surgery is still inadequate and no progress has been made in recent years in several coun tries, including Germany. There are still innumerable patients who find the is also no early postoperative period to be an unpleasant experience. There doubt that pain plays a role in the pathogenesis of postoperative complica tions that could be avoided with effective pain management. However, concern about side effects and inadequate knowledge of the pharmacokinet ics and -dynamics of drugs is still putting constraints on treatment. An acute pain service should be responsible for adequately treating pain, training medical and nursing staff, and evaluating new and existing methods of treatment. As anesthesiologists deal with pain in the operating theater, it is not surprising that they claim a leading role for themselves in acute pain services choosing from the various postoperative pain treatment options.
Download or read book Management of Pain written by J. A. De Vera and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Treatment of Chronic Pain written by Marco Mumenthaler and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Communication and Disenfranchisement written by Eileen Berlin Ray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume and its companion case studies book deal with some of the people, groups, and classes who are living a disenfranchised existence in the United States. Whether through birth, life events, or unfortunate circumstances, they are denied full privileges, rights, and power within the existing societal structure. Centered around societal health problems as they relate to socioeconomic status, family, abuse, and health concerns, these volumes examine salient issues from several theoretical frameworks, including feminist theory and the social construction of reality. Communication and Disenfranchisement provides theory-based essays on topics such as the homeless, adult survivors of sexual assault, battered women, persons with disabilities, impoverished women, the indigent living in the inner city, persons with HIV/AIDS, the terminally ill, and the elderly. Case Studies in Communication and Disenfranchisement provides parallel case studies, applying the issues and concepts discussed in the essays. Used together, these books provide theoretically-based applications of social health issues within a communication framework. Traditionally, health communication research has emphasized the communication-physical health relationship. Inadvertently, this primary focus has restricted what information has been included under the domain of health communication. These books expand that domain by examining how the communication-disenfranchisement relationship is accomplished, managed, and overcome, and by recognizing the significance of the pragmatic and theoretic implications of this inquiry.
Download or read book Summary of Committee Views and Workshop Examining the Feasibility of an Institute of Medicine Study of Dying Decisionmaking and Appropriate Care written by Marilyn Jane Field and published by National Academies. This book was released on 1994 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pain and Chemical Dependency written by Howard Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-25 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both pain and addiction are tremendous public health problems. Practitioners of every stripe say that they learned precious little about pain or addiction in their training and readily admit that instruction on the interface of pain and addiction is nonexistent. The recent problem of prescription drug abuse has only served to highlight the fact that these two worlds need unificationthose who treat pain must be informed about the risks of controlled substances and those who treat addiction need to better and more fully understand their benefits. Nowhere is the pooled knowledge of pain management and addiction medicine brought together to allow for a greater appreciation of the risks of addiction when treating people with pain and the pain problems of those with chemical dependency. This major new volume brings this vast knowledge base together, presenting an array of perspectives by the foremost thought leaders at the interface of pain and chemical dependency, and is the most comprehensive resource on the subject to date.There have been an increasing number of seminars devoted to this topic and a new society, The International Society on Pain and Chemical Dependency, has recently been formed, and this volume is destined to become the classic text on this multidisciplinary subject. It will appeal to anesthesiologists, neurologists, rehab physicians, palliative care staff, pain center physicians, and psychologists.
Download or read book BMJ written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Suffering and Dignity in the Twilight of Life written by B. Ars and published by Kugler Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended for everyone, but in particular for caregivers who are in the front line of the problem regarding the end of life and euthanasia. By presenting a critical analysis of the debate from a multidisciplinary perspective, the aim of this work is to provide a positive message about the therapeutic relationship at the end of life. Far from presenting an impenetrable tome or encyclopedia on the subject, our goal was to provide food for thought with sufficient information presented in what we hope to be a sober, thoughtful, and pedagogical manner. Thus, we have chosen not to discuss numerous very interesting questions that would have been beyond our goals. You will not find anything in the following pages about the etymology or history of the term 'euthanasia', or about the religious point of view, medical codes of ethics, opinions of national ethics committees, or even about the laws of countries where euthanasia was legalized before being outlawed (Australia), or is being seriously considered, sometimes in a bill that is already before parliament. In these pages, we are hoping to achieve a multidisciplinary book which will be regarded as a synthesis, offering a serene and positive vision of the end of life. The book is divided into three parts: the first, written by various physicians and a nurse, describes the different medical approaches to the 'end of life' now in existence, as well as possible treatments against pain and suffering. The second part, written by lawyers, provides a critical analysis of existing legislation in the only countries/states that have legalized euthanasia or assisted suicide: the State of Oregon in the USA, The Netherlands, and Belgium. The third and final part is a philosophical reflection on the dignity of the 'end of life' and places euthanasia in its anthropological, ethical, and sociopolitical context.
Download or read book Health Care Needs Assessment written by Andrew Stevens and published by Radcliffe Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a survey of health care needs for specific conditions, published on behalf of the Department of Health. This study considers questions such as the population's needs, the services available or unavailable to them, the effectiveness of these services, and other perspectives in disease and service areas. This is the second series of needs assessment reviews.
