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
    Pertinent practical points for analgesics and adjuvants
       Dose modification
       PRN versus regular use of analgesics
       Dose titration
       Acute neuropathic pain
       Placebos, placebo effect and placebo response
       Analgesics in the anticoagulated patient
       Nausea and vomiting and opioids
       Concurrent laxatives and opioids
       Competitive sport
       Fitness to drive
       Complementary and alternative medicine
    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
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