Pain control in the perioperative period
By: Alan N. Sandler, guest editor.
Contributors: Sandler, Alan N.
Series: Surgical clinics of North America -- v. 79, no. 2
Publisher: W.B. Saunders
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 449
Subjects: Pain -- Measurement.; Pain -- Treatment.; Postoperative pain.
Notes: "April 1999."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Acute pain mechanisms / Linda S. Sorkin, Mark S. Wallace; value: Measurement of pain / Joel Katz, Ronald Melzack; value: Analgesic agents for the postoperative period: opioids / Mona L. Austrup, Gideon Korean; value: Analgesic agents for the postoperative period: nonopioids / Ian Power, Stephen Barratt; value: Patient-controlled analgesia / Richard C. Etches; value: Epidural and spinal agents for postoperative analgesia / Narinder Rawal; value: Local and regional block in postoperative pain control / Philip W.H. Peng, Vincent W.S. Chan; value: Management of pain in intensive care settings / Donald S. Stevens, W. Thomas Edwards; value: Pain management in cardiothoracic practice / Marelise Kruger, Karen McRae; value: Postoperative pain control in ambulatory surgery / Doris Tong, Frances Chung; value: Acute pain control and accelerated postoperative surgical recovery / Henrik Kehlet.