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Up-to-date information on pain managementincluding options to
consider when conventional treatment is ineffective Providing
effective treatment for pain-especially to elderly clients-can be a
vexing problem for even the most knowledgeable clinician. In
Clinical Management of the Elderly Patient in Pain, some of the
world's leading authorities describe the unique difficulties that
arise when trying to provide pain relief to elderly patients. They
examine conventional treatment with opioid and non-steroidal
anti-inflammatory drugs along with a broad range of alternatives to
consider when frontline drugs fail. Non-drug options for pain
relief from the fields of physical medicine and psychology are also
explored. Essential topics addressed in Clinical Management of the
Elderly Patient in Pain include: pain as an aspect of advancing age
how pharmacology differs in elderly patients available therapeutic
options, including opioids, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs,
anti-epileptic drugs, tricyclic antidepressants, membrane
stabilizers, and topical agents physical medicine approaches
psychological approaches to pain in the elderly Most publications
on this subject focus on the use of opioids, non-steroidal drugs,
and other commonly prescribed analgesics. Clinical Management of
the Elderly Patient in Pain takes a different approach. Editor Gary
McCleane, MD, says, Our need, with elderly patients, is to provide
treatment that is both effective and easily tolerated. This is not
a book devoted to opioids and non-steroidals, although they are
addressed. Nor is it about those analgesics used in younger
patients being used in smaller doses with the elderly. Rather, it
contains practical options for treating pain when other simple
remedies fail to help. At times this will involve using
conventional analgesics in scaled-down doses, but at others it will
involve using substances not yet fully recognized as possessing
analgesic properties because they fit the bill in terms of possible
analgesic actions, side-effect profiles, and lack of drug/drug
interactionsand because practical experience suggests they may be
useful in the scenario described. Clinical Management of the
Elderly Patient in Pain is designed as a point of interface between
the specialist pain practitioner and the clinician faced with all
the problems of satisfactorily managing pain in elderly patients.
It presents commonsense, practical, patient-oriented options that
make it a useful resource for busy clinicians.
Oriental Networks explores forms of interconnectedness between
Western and Eastern hemispheres during the long eighteenth century,
a period of improving transportation technology, expansion of
intercultural contacts, and the emergence of a global economy. In
eight case studies and a substantial introduction, the volume
examines relationships between individuals and institutions,
precursors to modern networks that engaged in forms of
intercultural exchange. Addressing the exchange of cultural
commodities (plants, animals, and artifacts), cultural practices
and ideas, the roles of ambassadors and interlopers, and the
literary and artistic representation of networks, networkers, and
networking, contributors discuss the effects on people previously
separated by vast geographical and cultural distance. Rather than
idealizing networks as inherently superior to other forms of
organization, Oriental Networks also considers Enlightenment
expressions of resistance to networking that inform modern
skepticism toward the concept of the global network and its
politics. In doing so the volume contributes to the increasingly
global understanding of culture and communication. Published by
Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers
University Press.
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