Awarded second place in the 2013 AJN Book of the Year Awards in the Palliative Care and Hospice category
This book provides many options for pain management in cancer patients, including pharmacological and nonpharmacological options, ...[and] is well organized and easy to navigate. Score: 92, 4 Stars.--Doody's Medical Reviews
Overall, [this book] is a comprehensive and wide-ranging text that, as proclaimed on the cover, is evidence-based and fully referenced. Practitioners and students alike will find it useful, and it deserves a place on the library shelf where people from a wide range of backgrounds can gain access.--International Journal of Palliative Nursing
[This] text is full of 'clinical pearls' based on [the authors'] extensive clinical experience with effective and ineffective pain management interventionsÖThe scope of the content in this text is extremely comprehensiveÖnewer content on the effect of opioid polymorphisms, cancer pain emergencies, myofascial pain, and chronic pain in cancer survivors places this text at the forefront in terms of cutting-edge issues in cancer pain management.
Christine Miaskowski, RN, PhD, FAAN
Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professor
Sharon A. Lamb Endowed Chair in Symptom Management Research
Department of Physiological Nursing
University of California, San Francisco, CA
From the Foreword
Although the prevalence of uncontrolled cancer pain remains unnecessarily high, research has indicated that 90% of cancer patients with pain can be successfully treated with standard therapies. This concise yet extremely comprehensive guide to managing cancer pain will enable nurses on the front lines of pain assessment and management to incorporate effective strategies into their daily practice. It offers quick access to current evidence-based guidelines for busy nurses and nurse practitioners working in all oncology care settings. To facilitate quick information retrieval, the text is designed in a consistently organized, bulleted format with highlighted key information and tools for assessment and standardized treatment. It also serves as an important review for the ONS and HPNA certification exam.
This book focuses on all aspects of cancer pain, including assessment and screening tools, pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic treatment options, current national guidelines for pain management, regional anesthesia techniques, patient-controlled anesthesia, and epidural pain management. It also includes updated information on the effect of opioid polymorphisms, cancer pain emergencies, myofascial pain, and chronic pain in cancer survivors. The book covers palliative care and end-of-life pain management, especially for patients who have symptoms that are not managed. Information on chronic pain conditions such as neuropathic pain in cancer and the use of adjuvant medications for pain control are included, along with special treatment options for addiction and substance abuse in the cancer population. The text additionally provides information on managing pain with difficult-to-treat populations.
Key Features: - Provides current, evidence-based information on all aspects of cancer pain management
- Includes important new guidelines on using a combination of pain management scales for optimal pain assessment and management
- Describes interventional techniques for managing severe pain situations
- Organized for speedy information retrieval
Pamela Stitzlein Davies, MS, ARNP, ACHPN, is an Adult/Geriatric Nurse Practitioner in Supportive & Palliative Care at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance/University of Washington. She is a Teaching Associate at the University of Washington School of Medicine, and Clinical Faculty with the University of Washington School of Nursing, and is an Advanced Certified Hospice & Palliative Nurse. She provides complex symptom management and psychosocial support to those with advanced cancer. Ms. Davies has practiced as an Inpatient Hospice Center NP at Evergreen Healthcare, Kirkland, WA, providing comprehensive care to terminally ill patients requiring inpatient care for complex physical symptoms or psychosocial issues. Ms. Davies assisted in the creation of the University of California, San Francisco, Pain Clinical Research Center, and was responsible for coordination of all aspects of neuropathic pain clinical trials. Previously, she was a primary care provider at the Veteran's Administration Puget Sound Health Care System; and Charge Nurse in the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit at UCSF. She is a member of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, American Pain Society, and is past Treasurer of the American Society for Pain Management Nursing, She served on the American Pain Society 2010 guidelines committee on Guidelines on Opioids for Non-cancer Pain. Her articles are published in the New England Journal of Medicine, The Journal of Pain, and Pain. She is popular speaker on topics of cancer and non-cancer pain management, safe prescribing of opioids, and palliative and end-of-life pain care. Yvonne D'Arcy, MS, CRNP, CNS, is the Pain Management and Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner at Suburban Hospital- Johns Hopkins Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. She has served on the board of directors for the American Society of Pain Management Nurses and has played an integral role in the formulation of several guidelines on the management of acute and chronic pain. She is a Principle Investigator at Suburban Hospital for several studies to include the use of EMLA to reduce pain in elderly patients when IVs are placed. and the Dissemination and Implementation of Evidence -based methods to Measure and Improve Pain Outcomes. Ms. D'Arcy is also the recipient of the Nursing Spectrum Nursing Excellence Award in the Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia districts for Advancing and Leading the Profession. She has contributed to numerous books and journals throughout her career. Books include Pain Management: Evidence-Based Tools and Techniques for Nursing Professionals, Compact Clinical Guide to Chronic Pain, and Her book, How to Manage Pain in the Elderly is an American Journal of Nursing book of the year for 2010.Her books, A Compact Clinical Guide to Cancer Pain co-authored with Pamela Davies, and A Compact Clinical to Women's Pain, are scheduled for a 2012 publication. Ms D'Arcy lectures and presents nationally and internationally on such topics as chronic pain, difficult-to-treat neuropathic pain syndromes, how to teat pain in the elderly, and all aspects of acute pain management. Articles she has published can be found in an extensive number of journals, including but not limited to American Nurse Today, Nursing 2011, Pain Management Nursing, PT Insider, and Nurse Practitioner Journal.
