Shorten G, Carr D, Harmon D, et al. Postoperative pain management: an evidence-based guide to practice. Philadelphia: Saunders, 2006.
Coordinating Editor, Cochrane Pain and Palliative Care Group
| The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below. |
This 291 page book aims to enable readers to decide if current practices are evidence-based or not in an accessible form with a companion CD Rom with self assessment exercises. It is aimed at practitioners including anaesthetists, surgeons, and nurses. It claims to be suitable for both trainees and practitioners.
The volume contains 26 chapters contributed by 40 authors, many of whom are well known in the "pain world." The first 3 chapters offer background in evidence-based practice, and the remainder deal with
- scientific basis of pain and analgesia (6 chapters), covering physiological responses to surgery, mechanisms of nociceptive and neuropathic pain, genetics and genomics, patient outcomes, and opioid induced hyperalgesia.
- management of postoperative pain (11 chapters), containing objectives and management of pain services, clinical pharmacology for a range of analgesics, regional and peripheral interventions, and unconventional methods.
- management in specific clinical settings (eg, elderly, children, and obstetrics) (6 chapters).
. . . [Full text of this article]
CiteULike 
Complore 
Connotea 
Del.icio.us 
Digg 
Reddit 
Technorati What's this?
- Full Text
- Full Text (PDF)
- Submit a response
- Alert me when this article is cited
- Alert me when eLetters are posted
- Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
- Email this link to a friend
- Similar articles in this journal
- Add article to my folders
- Download to citation manager
- Request Permissions
Citing Articles
Google Scholar
PubMed
Topic Collections
Bookmark with
Register for free content
The full back archive is now available for all BMJ Journals. Institutional subscribers may access the entire archive as part of their subscription. Personal subscribers will also have access to all content when logged in. Non-subscribers who register have free access to all articles published before 2006 right back to volume 1 issue 1. Register here to access the free archive of all BMJ Journals.
Don't forget to sign up for content alerts so you keep up to date with all the articles as they are published.
