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About these guidelines
Getting to know your drugs
Analgesic
Contributors
Physiology and pathophysiology of pain
Getting to know your analgesic drugs
Routes of analgesic and adjuvant administration
Special problems with opioid use
Opioids for chronic pain
Commencing a trial of opioids
Patients on opioids long term
Analgesia in opioid-dependent patients
Inappropriate opioid use
Nausea and vomiting and opioids
Concurrent laxatives and opioids
Pertinent practical points for analgesics and adjuvants
Acute pain, chronic pain, and the transition from one to the other
Clinical assessment of pain
Nonpharmacological pain management techniques
Interventional techniques for chronic pain
The pain clinic
Perioperative pain
Procedure-related pain
Trauma pain
Burns
Obstetric pain
Pain in children
Special considerations for older people
Complex regional pain syndromes
Miscellaneous conditions requiring analgesia
Legal aspects of prescribing opioids
Glossary
List of tables, boxes and figures
Key references for Analgesic, version 5
Antibiotic
Cardiovascular
Dermatology
Emergency Medicine
Endocrinology
Gastrointestinal
Neurology
Oral and Dental
Palliative Care
Psychotropic
Respiratory
Rheumatology
Developmental Disability
Drug use in pregnancy and breastfeeding
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