Abd-Elsayed A. (ed.) Pain: A Review Guide

Springer, 2019. — 1175 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-99123-8.Боль.
This concise but comprehensive guide covers common procedures in pain management necessary for daily practice, and includes topics on international pain medicine curricula, for example, the American Board of Anesthesiology, World Institute of Pain/Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice, and American Board of Pain Medicine. Treatments for pain are discussed, including nerve blocks (head, neck, back, pelvis and lower extremity). Chapters have a consistent format including high yield points for exams, and questions in the form of case studies.
Pain: A Review Guide is aimed at trainees in pain medicine all over the world. This book will also be beneficial to all practitioners who practice pain.Anatomy of the nervous system.
Anatomy of the Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous System.
Different Types of Pain.
Peripheral Mechanisms.
Spinal and Medullary Dorsal Horn Mechanisms.
Segmental and Brain Stem Mechanisms.
Thalamocortical Mechanisms.
Experimental Models.
Peripheral Mechanisms of Pain Transmission and Modulation.
Synaptic Transmission of Pain in the Dorsal Horn.
Central Sensitization.
Neurotransmitters Involved in Pain Modulation.
Development of Pain Behavior in the Fetus and Newborn.
Physiologic and Behavioral Pain Assessment Measures in Infants.
Long-Term Consequences of Neonatal Pain.
Important Statistical Terms.
Appropriate Choice of Statistical Tests.
Critical Analysis of Literature and Evidence-Based Medicine.
Principles of Valid Clinical Research.
Effects of Analysis on the Clinical Applicability of Study Results.
Components of Clinical Trials.
Special Features of Pain Studies.
Outcome Measures in Clinical Studies.
Common Animal Models in the Study of Pain.
Ethics of Animal Experimentation.
Ethics of Pain Management and Research.
Professionalism and Quality Assurance.
Placebo, Nocebo and Pain.
Use of Data from Epidemiologic Studies of Pain.
Measurement of Burden in a Population, Including Epidemiologic Measures of Occurrence.
Observational Studies: Uses and Limitations.
Cohort Studies.
Case Control Studies.
Use of Risk Factors to Guide Treatment.
Pain as a Subjective, Multidimensional Experience.
Introspection and Measurement of Subjective Pain Experience.
Measurement of Pain.
Indirect Pain Measurement.
Important Definitions.
Electrodiagnostic Testing.
Evoked Potentials.
Quantitative Sensory Testing.
Skin Punch Biopsy.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Functional MRI (fMRI), and MR Spectroscopy.
Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Scans.