Pain Management Yearbook 2012 de Joav Merrick

Pain Management Yearbook 2012

Joav Merrick

In this yearbook for 2012 we present you with the latest research on pain management. We start our with experience from Hong Kong on palliative care and the four year training program and then further along the pages of this yearbook you will find information about pain, psychological symptoms and prescription drug misuse in HIV, oxygen therapy in patients with advanced lung disease, pain beliefs and pain-related profiles of older persons living in nursing homes, happiness among community-dwelling older persons, fibromyalgia in women, chronic headache, pain management programs, and the role of radiotherapy for the management of painful bone metastases. It is our hope that you as the reader will find the information of interest and useful.

Citește tot Restrânge

Cuprins

Introduction; Improve Cancer Pain Control by Continuous Subcutaneous Ketamine Infusion: A Retrospective Case Review of Ketamine Treatment Protocol in an Oncology Center; Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression: Radiotherapy Outcome; Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Highly Stressed Breast Cancer Survivors; Palliative Haemostatic Radiotherapy for Advanced Cancer of the Stomach; Do Not Resuscitate How is it Perceived ?; Aggressiveness of Cancer-Care in Lung Cancer Patients Near the End-of-Life in an Oncology Center in Hong Kong; A Cross Sectional Study of Use of Different Pain Assessment Tools in Chinese Cancer Patients; The Information Needs, Perceptions of Communication & Decision-Making Process of Cancer Patients Receiving Palliative Chemotherapy; Pain, Psychological Symptoms & Prescription Drug Misuse in HIV: A Literature Review; A Review of the Impact of Oxygen Therapy in Patients with Advanced Lung Disease; Assessing the Quantity & Quality of Experienced & Imagined Pain in Relation to Health Professional Status; Pain Beliefs & Pain-Related Profiles of Older Persons Living in Nursing Homes; Needs Assessment of Patients & their Caregivers at the Rapid Response Radiotherapy Program; Happiness among Community-Dwelling Older Persons: Is it Related to Pain & Loneliness?; On Parole: The Natural History of Recovery from Fibromyalgia in Women - A Grounded Theory Study; Autogenic Training in Patients Treated for Chronic Headache: A Randomised Clinical Trial; The Long-Term Effectiveness of Pain Management Programs: A Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis; The Need to Define Chronic Pain Self-Management; Evaluation of a Daily Diary for Assessing the Prevalence of Radiation Induced Emesis (RIE); Women with Fibromyalgia: Distress Avoidance Interferes with Gaps in Pain; The Role of Psychological Flexibility in Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Preliminary Cross-Sectional Analysis of Processes & Treatment Feasibility; Pain: The Continuing Epidemic; Effect of Local Anesthesia & COX-2 Inhibitors after Thyroid Resection on Postoperative Pain. Results of Two Consecutive Randomized Controlled Monocenter Studies; The Role of Radiotherapy (RT) for the Management of Painful Bone Metastases; Symptom Clusters in Patients with Prostate Cancer: A Literature Review; Pharmacologic Management of Uncomplicated Painful Bone Metastases; Physical Therapy Management of Older Adults with Chronic Low Back Pain: A Systematic Review; Positron Emission Tomography & Bone Metastases. A Review of the Literature; Long-Term Survival in Patients with Brain Metastases from Non Small Cell Lung Carcinoma: A Case Series; Heterotopic Ossification: Mimics of Other Benign & Malignant Etiologies; Osteonecrosis of the Jaw Appearing as Bone Metastases in Bone Scan in a Patient with Breast Cancer; Unusual Presentation of Osteolytic Bone Metastases in Prostate Adenocarcinoma; Index.