Overview
- Use of clinical case examples for additional rea-world perspective and teaching tools
- Discussion of special populations within the pain medicine patient demographic
- Addresses issues regarding an emerging national public health crisis
- Comprehensive approach to proper patient selection, safe prescribing practices, and alternative treatment strategies
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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An Opioid Crisis with Pediatric Implications
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Considerations for Safe Opioid Prescribing in Pediatrics
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Therapeutic Approaches to Pediatric Acute and Chronic Pain Management
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About this book
Opioid analgesics are among the most effective medications for pain management but are associated with serious and increasing public health problems, including abuse, addiction, and death from overdose. Currently, there is an opioid epidemic in the United States with the rate of prescription opioid-related overdose deaths quadrupling over the last 15 years. Pediatric patients are particularly vulnerable to the devastating consequences of opioid misuse. Adolescents who are prescribed opioids are at a higher risk for abusing illicit drugs later in life. Clinicians managing pediatric pain must account for such issues while still delivering effective analgesia to young patients who suffer from both acute and chronic pain.
Opioid Therapy in Children and Adolescents is designed to explore the unique aspects of opioid therapy in pediatric patients. An introductory framework provides historical context and describes the epidemiology of the opioid crisis with focus on pediatric implications. Subsequent chapters focus on pediatric opioid pharmacology, safe opioid prescribing practices, and non-opioid alternatives to managing pediatric pain states, including multimodal analgesic strategies, interdisciplinary approaches, and complementary medicine. Mitigation strategies against pediatric opioid diversion and misuse are addressed to help clinicians develop practice changes that protect pediatric patients from opioid-related morbidity and mortality. Clinical case examples are also utilized throughout the text to provide grounding for each chapter and a context within which to examine pertinent issues.
This first of its kind book provides a comprehensive approach that will guide clinicians to appropriately and safely prescribe opioid analgesics to pediatric patients suffering from pain. It is an invaluable resource for pediatricians, family practitioners, anesthesiologists,pediatric oncologists, and other clinicians who manage pediatric pain.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ravi Shah, MD
Department of Pediatric Anesthesiology
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL, USA
Santhanam Suresh, MD, MBA
Department of Pediatric Anesthesiology
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL, USABibliographic Information
Book Title: Opioid Therapy in Infants, Children, and Adolescents
Editors: Ravi D. Shah, Santhanam Suresh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36287-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-36286-7Published: 22 February 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-36289-8Published: 22 February 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-36287-4Published: 21 February 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 354
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
Topics: Pediatrics, Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance, Pain Medicine