Compact Clinical Guide to Women's Pain Management
Springer Publishing Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8261-9385-8 (ISBN)
The guide provides quick access to nursing guidelines for treatment of pain due to fibromyalgia, TMJ pain, phantom breast pain, postmastectomy pain syndrome, menstrually related migraine headaches, irritable bowel syndrome, interstitial cystitis, and STD-related and pelvic pain. Pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment options, current information from national guidelines (including using a combination of pain management scales for optimal pain assessment and management), along with regional anaesthesia techniques, patient-controlled analgesia, and epidural pain management are also included. In addition, the guide discusses options for managing extreme pain situations, how to screen and treat potential substance abusers, and the physiologic bases of gender-different pain responses. Each chapter features a section called 'Nursing Considerations' which focuses on interventions and techniques to improve outcomes. Of particular note is a section on managing pain in obese women who suffer from pelvic pain syndromes and fibromyalgia, among other types of pain.
Key Features:
Focuses on evidence-based clinical management of all commonly presented pain conditions particular to women
Discusses pharmacologic and complementary pain management
Addresses physiologic bases of gender-different pain responses
Provides cutting edge information regarding pain in obese women and managing extreme pain situations
Offers new information on opioid polymorphisms that guide understanding of why pain medication is sometimes less effective than expected
Yvonne D'Arcy, MS, CRNP, CNS is the Pain and Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner at Suburban Hospital- Johns Hopkins Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. She received her BSN from Viterbo University, her MSN from Winona State University and her Nurse Practitioner Certificate from the University of Florida. Ms D'Arcy is a member of the American Pain Society, the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, and a previous member of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses. She has served on the board of directors for the American Society of Pain Management Nurses and has played an integral role in the formulation of several guidelines on the management of acute and chronic pain. She is a Principle Investigator at Suburban Hospital for Dissemination and Implementation of Evidence-based Methods to Measure and Improve Pain Outcomes. She is the recipient of the Nursing Spectrum Nursing Excellence Award in the Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia district for Advancing and Leading the Profession. Ms D'Arcy has contributed both to books and journals throughout her career. Books include Pain Management: Evidence-based Tools and Techniques for Nursing Professionals, Compact Clinical Guide to Chronic Pain, and Compact Clinical Guide to Acute Pain. Her book,How to Manage Pain in the Elderly is an American Journal of Nursing book of the year for 2010.Her books Compact Clinical Guide to Cancer Pain co-authored with Pamela Davies, and Compact Clinical to Women's Pain are scheduled for a 2012 publication.
Mitarbeit |
Herausgeber (Serie): Yvonne D'Arcy |
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Zusatzinfo | 10 Illustrations, unspecified |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 127 x 203 mm |
Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe ► Hebamme / Entbindungspfleger |
Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Pharmakologie / Pharmakotherapie | |
Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Schmerztherapie | |
Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Ausbildung / Prüfung | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8261-9385-4 / 0826193854 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8261-9385-8 / 9780826193858 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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