Effective Treatments for Pain in the Older Patient
Editors: Cordts, Grace A., Christo, Paul J. (Eds.)
Free Preview- 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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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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
- Reviews
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“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)
- Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Effective Approaches for Pain Relief in Older Adults
Pages 1-11
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Pain Assessment in Older Adults
Pages 13-34
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Acute Pain Management in Older Adults
Pages 35-52
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Unique Physiologic Considerations
Pages 53-69
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Specific Conditions Causing Persistent Pain in Older Adults
Pages 71-107
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Effective Treatments for Pain in the Older Patient
- Editors
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- Grace A. Cordts
- Paul J. Christo
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4939-8827-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4939-8827-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4939-8825-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 197
- Number of Illustrations
- 12 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
- Topics
