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Pain Research and Clinical Management Series
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Third Edition
Edited By
K. J. Anand, MBBS, DPhil, Professor of Pediatrics, Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Neurobiology, Morris and Hettie Oakley Endowed Chair of Critical
Care Medicine, UAMS College of Medicine; and Director, Pain Neurobiology Laboratory Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute,
Little Rock, AR, USA
B. J. Stevens, RN, PhD, Professor of Nursing and Medicine, University of Toronto, The Hospital for Sick Children, Signy Hildur Eaton Chair in Pediatric
Nursing Research; and Associate Chief of Nursing (Research), Toronto, Canada
Patrick McGrath, OC, PhD, FRSC, Professor of Psychology, Pediatrics and Psychiatry, Canada Research Chair, Dalhousie University; and CIHR Distinguished
Scientist Psychologist, IWK Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Pain Research and Clinical Management,
Description
A new edition of a highly regarded text in the series on Pain Research and Clinical Management. The book is now used as a standard reference
text for those working in the field of neonatology and paediatric pain assessment and management. It provides a comprehensive resource
of the latest information in the field for use by both researchers and clinicians. The text is intended for use by all professionals
working in the field: neonatologists; pediatricians; anestheiologists; nurses; psychologists.
Contents
Overview of neonatal and infant pain.
Development of peripheral and spinal nociceptive systems.
Development of supraspinal
pain processing.
Long-term consequences of pain in human neonates.
Long-term consequences of neonatal and infant pain from
animal models.
Assessment of pain in neonates and infants.
Infant colic: clinical implications
and current controversies.
Pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics of analgesic drugs.
Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
of analgesic drugs.
Evidence for systemic morphine and fentanyl analgesia.
Central and peripheral regional analgesia and
anesthesia.
The social and environmental context in which pain is experienced in neonates.
Pain and the
human fetus.
Viceral pain in infancy.
Ethical issues in the treatment of neonatal and infant pain.
Neonatal Pain
in the Family and Social and Cultural Context.
Evidence-based practice as a means for clinical decision-making.
Pain in
vulnerable populations and palliative care.
Infant Pain in Developing Countries: a South-African perspective.
Health policy
and health economics related to neonatal pain.
Complementary and alternative approaches to pain in infancy.
Parenting and
pain during infancy.
Future directions.
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 328 pages, publication date: MAY-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-444-52061-6
ISBN-10: 0-444-52061-9
Imprint: ELSEVIER
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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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