Pain management: problems and progress -- Basic mechanisms underlying the causes and effects of pain -- Assessment: underlying complexities, misconceptions, and practical tools -- Overview of three groups of analgesics -- Nonopioids: acetaminophen and nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) -- Opioid analgesics -- Adjuvant analgesics -- Procedural pain management -- Practical nondrug approaches to pain -- Substance abuse -- Chronic nonmalignant pain -- Selected pain problems -- Pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, and breast feeding: use of analgesics -- Pain in infants -- Pain in the elderly --Building institutional commitment to improving pain management.
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