Table Of Contents:

SECTION I EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE

The Principles of Evidence-Based Practice 1(4)

Salahadin Abdi

Laxmaiah Manchikanti

Accessing and Assessing Medical Evidence 5(7)

Marcus Mullner

Daniel B. Carr

Guidelines, Recommendations, Protocols, and Practice 12(15)

Jeffrey Uppington

SECTION II SCIENTIFIC BASIS OF POSTOPERATIVE PAIN AND ANALGESIA

The Neurohumoral, Inflammatory, and Coagulation Responses to Surgery 27(7)

Conor J. Shields

H. Paul Redmond

Mechanisms of Postoperative Pain---Nociceptive 34(6)

Henry Frizelle

Mechanisms of Postoperative Pain---Neuropathic 40(23)

Richard M. Talbot

Connail R. McCrory

Postoperative Pain---Genetics and Genomics 63(8)

Ulrike M. Stamer

Frank Stuber

Postoperative Pain Management and Patient Outcome 71(13)

Christopher L. Wu

Robert W. Hurley

Opioids: Excitatory Effects---Hyperalgesia, Tolerance, and the Postoperative Period 84(11)

Oliver H. G. Wilder-Smith

SECTION III MANAGEMENT OF POSTOPERATIVE PAIN

Defining Pain Management Objectives 95(7)

Peter G. Moore

Clinical Assessment of Postoperative Pain 102(7)

Gabriella Iohom

Prediction and Prevention of Acute Postoperative Pain: Moving Beyond Preemptive Analgesia 109(9)

Joel Katz

Acute Pain Services 118(9)

Narinder Rawal

Applied Clinical Pharmacology of Opioids 127(10)

Damian Murphy

Use of Opioid Analgesics in the Perioperative Period 137(11)

Colin J. L. McCartney

Ahtsham Niazi

Patient-Controlled Analgesia 148(6)

Jeremy N. Cashman

Regional and Peripheral Techniques 154(7)

Brian Kinirons

Dominic Harmon

Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs in Postoperative Pain 161(21)

James Helstrom

Carl E. Rosow

Multimodal Analgesic Therapy 182(15)

Joseph Pergolizzi

Leonard M. Wills

Nonconventional and Adjunctive Analgesia 197(14)

Kate Fitzgerald

Donal Buggy

SECTION IV POSTOPERATIVE PAIN MANAGEMENT IN SPECIFIC CLINICAL SETTINGS

Postoperative Pain Management in Infants and Children 211(8)

Yuan-Chi Lin

Postoperative Pain Management in the Elderly 219(6)

Diarmuid McCoy

Dominic Harmon

Postoperative Pain Management after Cesarean Section 225(14)

Rachel A. Farracher

John G. Laffey

Postoperative Pain Management for Patients with Drug Dependence 239(10)

Srdjan S. Nedeljkovic

Ajay D. Wasan

Postoperative Pain Management in the Ambulatory Setting 249(10)

Navparkash Sandhu

Shyamala Karuvannur

Dominic Harmon

Can We Prevent Chronic Pain after Surgery? 259(6)

William A. Macrae
Index 265