Synopsis

PAIN: CLINICAL MANUAL provides practical tools and guidelines for treating patients' pain in all clinical settings and age groups. This useful resource features ready-to-use, reproducible pain rating scales, guidelines, forms, and patient medication information handouts. Comprehensive pharmacologic chapters discuss the three groups of analgesics, dose titration, drug combinations, routes of administration, and prevention of side effects. Additionally, it includes pain rating scales in over 20 languages and quick guides with illustrations of selected pain problems. PAIN: CLINICAL MANUAL is a valuable resource for anyone who cares for patients with pain.

* Provides ready-to-use forms and recommendations for pain care committees to assist health care facilities to prepare for JCAHO inspections.
• Includes two FREE pocket-size, laminated cards: equianalgesic charts to assist clinicians with dose calculations when changing routes of administration or analgesics, and dosing guides to commonly used adjuvants and nonopioids.
• Includes FREE access to Mosby's PAIN WEBSITE.
• The most clinically useful book ever published on pain, written by authorities who helped establish the pain management movement.
• Includes 11 new chapters and five expanded and updated chapters to provide the most accurate, up-to-date, and comprehensive pain management information.
• Includes icons to alert the reader to important, need-to-know information, such as pediatric content, patient examples, and reproducible material.
• Features over 200 boxes and tables to help quickly locate key information and apply complex concepts at the bedside.
• Presents a unique, multidisciplinary perspective.
• Provides ready-to-use, practical, proven, and reproducible tools, pain assessment and documentation forms, and guides to analgesic use.
• Contains patient information handouts on analgesics and nondrug methods of pain relief to educate the patient/family/caregiver about the patient's specific pain management.
• Includes reproducible key policies, procedures, and protocols to assist the clinician in implementing patient focused interdisciplinary pain management.
• Presents pharmacology content in four chapters - the three analgesic groups and an overview of how to combine them - to provide a readily understandable reference and practical resource.
• Includes quick guides with illustrations of selected pain problems, such as pain related to sickle cell disease, peripheral neuropathy, and fibromyalgia.
• Contains pain rating scales in over 20 languages to enhance patient/clinician communication in culturally diverse populations.

Deborah K. Fultner

This second edition presents all aspects of pain management and the latest progress in pain control. Topics include assessment tools, analgesics, nondrug control, and pain management during pregnancy, in infants, and in older adults. The first edition was published in 1989. The purpose is to provide the practitioner practical information from recent research findings on pain management that can readily be applied to all ages of clients in the clinical setting. Pain management in various clinical settings is presented. This book is written for professional nurses, physician assistants, advanced practice nurses, pharmacists, and physicians. I agree with the editors that the book is useful for all practitioners who practice pain management. The first editor is very well known for her knowledge about methods of pain management. The second is a pain consultant and an expert in pain management. The book contains several unique features. The tables, boxes, and forms are labeled and categorized by chapter in the front of the book. The table of contents is detailed, making scanning easy. Two icons -- one for pediatric content and one to indicate the summary of recommendations -- appear in every chapter. Another useful feature is the permission granted by the editors to duplicate the tables, boxes, and forms. The black-and-white illustrations are very effective. The content is thorough, providing the reader with an in-depth picture of pain management with the newest and most effective pain control methods. This second edition contains new pharmacological methods of pain control. It covers different types of pain, problems related to pain management, pain in various populations, andspecific disease states that require pain management. All health professionals working with clients in pain will benefit from having this book to guide their practice.

Biography

MARGE MCCAFFERY, RN, MS, FAAN. Founding member International Assoc for the Study of Pain; appointment to WHO Expert Committee on Cancer Pain Relief and Active Supportive Care.

CHRIS PASERO, RN, MSNc. Clinical and Administrative Director of Acute and Chronic pain Services, Schmupert Medical Center, Shreveport, Louisiana. Co-founder and past president, American Society of Pain Management Nurses; Author, "Pain Control" for the American Journal of Nursing.