Pain/Palliative Care, An Issue of Anesthesiology Clinics

1st Edition, Volume 41-2 - May 30, 2023
Editors: Ronald G. Pearl, Sean Mackey
Language: English
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In this issue of Anesthesiology Clinics, guest editors Drs. Ronald G. Pearl and Sean Mackey bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Pain/Palliative Care. Top experts in the field cover key topics such as psychological approaches for migraine management; ketamine in chronic pain management; spinal cord stimulation for treatment of chronic pain: history and transition to novel waveforms; blinded pain cocktails; transitional pain services; and more.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Contributors
Forthcoming Issues
Foreword
Preface
Emerging Field of Biased Opioid Agonists
Key points
Introduction
Opioid receptor
Summary
Clinics care points
Disclosure
Pain Medicine Education in the United States: Success, Threats, and Opportunities
Key points
Historical background
The advent of multidisciplinary pain medicine fellowships
Development of a curriculum
Future challenges
Disclosure
Psychological Approaches for Migraine Management
Key points
Introduction
Psychosocial risk factors in migraine
Discussion
Summary
Clinics care points
Disclosures
Ketamine for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: A Narrative Review Highlighting Dosing Practices and Treatment Response
Key points
Introduction
Evidence for ketamine in complex regional pain syndrome
Brief overview of ketamine’s analgesic mechanisms
Ketamine dosage and duration of pain relief
Response rate and predictors of ketamine response
Noninjectable formulations of ketamine
Summary
Clinics care points
Disclosures
Conflicts of interest
Blinded Pain Cocktails: A Reliable and Safe Opioid Weaning Method
Key points
Introduction
The stanford blinded pain cocktail protocol
Use of dose-extending open-label placebos in the pain cocktail protocol
Effectiveness of blinded pain cocktail in opioid reduction
Summary
Clinics care points
Disclosure
Transitional Pain Medicine; New Era, New Opportunities, and New Journey
Key points
Incidence of chronic postsurgical pain
Mechanisms and characteristics
Risk factors
Prediction
Prevention
Role of transitional pain service
Future directions
Clinics care points
Disclosure
Review of Ultrasound-Guided Procedures in the Management of Chronic Pain
Key points
Introduction
Material and methods
Results
Discussion and conclusion
Conflicts of interest
Funding
Disparities in Pain Management
Key points
Introduction
Racial and ethnic disparities in health care
Other vulnerable populations
Obstetric anesthesia
Geographic disparities in pain management
Advanced pain procedures
What health care providers and organizations can do
Summary
Clinics care points
Disclosure
Clinical Approach to Chronic Pain due to Perioperative Nerve Injury
Key points
Mechanisms of injury
Causes
Clinical presentation
Diagnosis
Management
Clinics care points
Disclosure
Pragmatic Comparative Effectiveness Trials and Learning Health Systems in Pain Medicine: Opportunities and Challenges
Key points
Introduction to pragmatic comparative effectiveness trials
Application of pragmatic comparative effectiveness trials in pain medicine
Informed consent
The learning health system and high-quality, real-world data collection
The Stanford learning health system model and future directions
Summary
Clinics care points
Conflict of interest statement
Chronic, Noncancer Pain Care in the Veterans Administration: Current Trends and Future Directions
Key points
Introduction/History/Definitions/Background
Discussion
Future research
Summary
Clinics care points
Declaration of Interests