Overview
- Comprehensive resource on pain in older adults which covers all treatment modalities: drugs, psychosocial, complementary/alternative, and interventional
- Contains many practical features such as tables, algorithms, and checklists, and is designed to answer questions that arise in day-to-day practice
- Written by leaders in the field, this clinically relevant summary of unique physiology of older adults and its implications for pain treatment also addresses addiction risk
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Reviews
“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)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Effective Treatments for Pain in the Older Patient
Editors: Grace A. Cordts, Paul J. Christo
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8827-3
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-8825-9
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-8827-3
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 197
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Pain Medicine, Anesthesiology, Geriatrics/Gerontology, Intensive / Critical Care Medicine, Neurology