Management of Acute Pain: A Practical Guide

This book was prepared by the IASP Task Force on Acute Pain to provide leadership in areas of clinical care, teaching, and research related to a variety of forms of acute pain which remain universal and major health care problems.  This publication includes adult and pediatric postoperative pain, acute cancer pain, trauma and burn pain, obstetric pain, and acutely painful medical conditions (cardiac pain, acute herpes zoster, acute sickle cell crisis, acute myofascial pain, acute abdominal pain).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Pharmacology
Chapter 3: Adult Postoperative Pain
Chapter 4: Burn and Trauma Pain
Chapter 5: Pediatric Postoperative Pain
Chapter 6: Acute Painful Medical Conditions
Chapter 7: Acute Cancer Pain
Chapter 8: Obstetric Pain

Appendices

• Development of an Acute and Postoperative Pain Management Service
• Example of Acute Pain Service Epidural Analgesia Physician Orders
• Example of Acute Pain Service Intravenous PCA Physicians Orders
• Example of an Acute Pain Service Monitoring Chart
• Selected References
• List of Tables
• Subject Index