"This text aims to provide an authoritative and practical aguide for the dosage and effective management of conventional forms of analgesia and to vie an understanding of the newer more sophisticated techniques such as patient controlled analgesia and epidural analgesia. The concisely written text is supplemented with many useful checklists, flow charts and key points which can be readily referred to during treatment of a patient."--Www.amazon.com editorial review
Includes bibliographical references and index
Acute pain: significance and assessment -- Pharmacology of opioids -- Pharmacology of local anaesthetics -- Traditional methods of opioid administration -- Patient-controlled analgesia -- Epidural and intrathecal analgesia -- Other drugs used in acute pain management -- Education