Nerve Blocks in Palliative Care
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 9 September 2004
- ISBN 9780198527039
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages148 pages
- Size 215x139x9 mm
- Weight 200 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 53 black & white photographs and illustrations 0
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Short description:
This book is a succinct, practical, clinically-based guide to nerve blocking techniques that are available in current practice. A nerve block is the injection of either a local anaesthetic or a drug that inactivates nerves to control otherwise uncontrollable pain. Nerve blocks can be used to determine the source of pain, to treat painful conditions that respond to nerve blocks, to predict how the pain will respond to long-term treatments, and to prevent pain following procedures.
MoreLong description:
In most patients, pain medication, along with physical therapy and supportive counselling, adequately controls the pain of terminal disease, but in some cases pain medication fails or produces unacceptable side effects, and other more invasive interventions may be used. This practical book provides comprehensive and easy-to-follow guidelines on nerve blocking and neuromodulation techniques to help patients and professionals make choices in pain management. Patients selection and appropriate referral are discussed as well as ethical issues and consent.
This book will be an invaluable source of information for a variety of professionals working with patients with advanced disease, including palliative care doctors and specialist nurses, as there is a scarcity of consultants in pain management in the field of palliative care. Some healthcare professionals may not have experience of the full range of techniques that may benefit their patients, therefore limiting the choices available to patients with uncontrolled pain in the context of palliative care. This book will ensure that the full range of techniques are considered to provide excellent care for patients with pain that is difficult to manage.
The authors rightly make the point that the successful use of interventional techniques first requires good patient assessment, and then a cooperative approach by palliative care and pain management teams, followed by clearly articulated plans for aftercare.
Table of Contents:
Philosophy behind the use of interventional pain management techniques in palliative care
Defining the problem
Assessment of pain
Pain syndromes
Choice of technique
Simple peripheral nerve blocks and injections
Regional nerve blocks
Spinal drug delivery
Electrical stimulation techniques
Ethical issues
