Product Description

Acute Pain Management: A Practical Guide is intended to give readers a better understanding of the conventional methods of analgesia as well as the more advanced techniques that are now routinely used for the management of acute pain, such as patient-controlled, epidural and continuous regional analgesia.

The book explores pain control in more complex patients such as those with acute-on-chronic pain, acute cancer pain or acute pain from a multitude of medical conditions as well as those who are opioid-tolerant have acute neuropathic pain, or are elderly. In addition to new chapters on changes in clinical practice, added to each section are key points that highlight the level of evidence available for that topic. These points have been reproduced with permission from the acute pain guidelines published by the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists and Faculty of Pain Medicine, Acute Pain Management: Scientific Evidence - both authors were members of the working party responsible for this document - and annotated according to the system recommended by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #340751 in Books
• Published on: 2007-07-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

About the Author
Stephan Schug is a medical graduate from the University of Cologne in Germany. At this University he also completed his MD by thesis in clinical pharmacology and his specialist training in anaesthesia, intensive care and pain medicine. After working for the University of Cologne as a Clinical Lecturer and Co-Director of its Cancer Pain Management Center, he moved to Auckland, New Zealand in 1989. In Auckland, he worked initially for Auckland Hospital as a Temporary Acting Specialist in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, before joining the Pharmacology Department of the University of Auckland as a Senior Lecturer and Head of its Section of Anaesthetics in 1991. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1994 and became full Professor and the first Chair of Anaesthesiology of the University of Auckland in 2000. Throughout his 12 years in Auckland, Stephan Schug had a clinical role as a staff specialist in anaesthesia and pain medicine at Auckland Hospital and the inaugural director of its pain service. When Stephan Schug moved to Perth in 2001, he maintained his linkage to the University of Auckland as an Honorary Professor of Anaesthesiology, while taking up his new role as Associate Professor, then Professor in the Pharmacology Unit of the School of Medicine and Pharmacology of the University of Western Australia. In 2006, he succeeded Professor Teik Oh, the Inaugural Chair of Anaesthesia at UWA, who retired. Stephan Schug's clinical role is Director of Pain.

Customer Reviews

Acute Pain Management - Everything You Need To Know!
This book is aimed towards anaesthetists, Doctors and medical students, however as a student nurse I have found this book extremely helpful. The book does excatly what the title says, focuses on issues surrounding acute pain management. The book looks at how to management a patients acute pain by looking at paricular areas. These include the importance of assessment and how to complete these, pharmacology of medications used to manage pain, and also looks at non-pharmacological treatments - this in particular being very helpful when holistically assessing your patient and looking at other aspects of care that will aid in managing a patients pain.
The book is written in a straight forward easy manner which is easy to pick up and flick through to the information that you require. At the end of the book is a self assessment quiz which allows the reader to go through a series of questions related to each chapter to assist in learning about the methods of assessment and also medications related in managing pain. Overall this is a really good book and I would recommend it to anybody that is either interested in pain management as a specific topic OR for any student that has an assignment based on the management of pain.

I LOVE this book!
This book just ticks all the right boxes for me, firstly its size is perfect being A5 with just under 300 pages and it is so easy to read.

As the title suggests this is a `Practical guide' and it certainly doesn't fail, with every conceivable chapter on pain management inclusive within the text I have used this book over and over.

Now to point out a potential disadvantage... it is an Australian book which in theory is not problematic but be aware of this with regards to certain protocols that are detailed within the text.

With a good detailed covering of anaesthesia, pharmacological and non-pharmacological methods of management and details on opioid treatments this book covers many areas and just when you think you are heading for the index Macintyre and Schug have thrown in some complex patients for discussion before 60 self assessment questions hit you - to make sure you were paying attention?

I can't help but be enthusiastic about this book, for me it has tackled acute pain management in a nutshell and the assessment questions have helped to formulate my knowledge.