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About Therapeutic 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
    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
       Pathophysiology
       Clinical presentation
       Burn depth and characteristics (Table 14.24)
       Lund and Browder chart for estimating and documenting the severity and extent of burn wounds in adults and children (Figure 14.19)
       Key management issues
          Initial management
          Acute pain management
          Fluid resuscitation
          Dressings
          Hydrofluoric acid burns
       Ongoing care
       Disposition
    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
Antibiotic
Cardiovascular
Dermatology
Emergency Medicine
Endocrinology
Gastrointestinal
Neurology
Oral and Dental
Palliative Care
Psychotropic
Respiratory
Rheumatology
Developmental Disability
Drug use in pregnancy and breastfeeding