Page 5 Guide to Pain Management in Low-Resource Settings

Contents

Basics
1. History, Defi nitions, and Contemporary Viewpoints 3
Wilfried Witte and Christoph Stein
2. Obstacles to Pain Management in Low-Resource Settings 9
Olaitan A Soyannwo

3. Physiology of Pain 13
Nilesh B. Patel
4. Psychological Factors in Chronic Pain 19
Harald C. Traue, Lucia Jerg-Bretzke, Michael Pfi ngsten, and Vladimir Hrabal
5. Ethnocultural and Sex Infl uences in Pain 27
Angela Mailis-Gagnon
6. Pharmacology of Analgesics (Excluding Opioids) 33
Kay Brune
7. Opioids in Pain Medicine 39
Michael Schäfer

8. Principles of Palliative Care 47
Lukas Radbruch and Julia Downing
9. Complementary Th erapies for Pain Management 59
Barrie Cassileth and Jyothirmai Gubili

Physical and Psychological Patient Evaluation
10. Pain History and Pain Assessment 67
Richard A. Powell, Julia Downing, Henry Ddungu, and Faith N. Mwangi-Powell
11. Physical Examination: Neurology 79
Paul Kioy and Andreas Kopf
12. Physical Examination: Orthopedics 87
Richard Fisher
13. Psychological Evaluation of the Patient with Chronic Pain 93
Claudia Schulz-Gibbins

Management of Acute Pain
14. Pain Management after Major Surgery 103
Frank Boni
15. Acute Trauma and Preoperative Pain 115
O. Aisuodionoe-Shadrach
16. Pain Management in Ambulatory/Day Surgery 119
Andrew Amata

17. Pharmacological Management of Pain in Obstetrics 123
Katarina Jankovic

Management of Cancer Pain
18. Abdominal Cancer, Constipation, and Anorexia 137
Andreas Kopf

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