Handbook of methadone prescribing and buprenorphine therapy
Methadone and buprenorphine are the only two opioids that are indicated for the management of both pain and opioid-related drug addiction. Both present unique challenges to the general practitioner and pain specialist, requiring a separate analysis from the rest of the drugs in the same family. Hand...
| Other Authors: | Cruciani, Ricardo., Knotkova, Helena., SpringerLink (Online service) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer,
©2013.
New York, NY : [2013] |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xvii, 298 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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| Summary: |
Methadone and buprenorphine are the only two opioids that are indicated for the management of both pain and opioid-related drug addiction. Both present unique challenges to the general practitioner and pain specialist, requiring a separate analysis from the rest of the drugs in the same family. Handbook of Methadone Prescribing and Buprenorphine Therapy is an invaluable guide to the safe use of these opioids. Authored by clinical and academic leaders from a variety of settings and backgrounds, this book includes chapters on pharmacology, adverse effects, safe rotation from other opioids, cardiac toxicity, prescribing, pharmacokinetics, equianalgesic dose, and replacement therapy. This comprehensive text provides clinicians, researchers, policy-makers and academicians a resource for all the relevant points in methadone prescribing and buprenorphine therapy. |
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| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Prescribing methadone safely -- Use of methadone in opioid maintenance treatment -- Treating pain in patients receiving methadone maintenance for opioid dependence -- Methadone side effects: constipation, respiratory depression, sedation, sleep-disordered breathing, and the endocrine system -- Cardiovascular effects of methadone -- Methadone pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics -- Methadone and opioid rotation -- Intravenous use of methadone: efficacy and safety -- Methadone hyperalgesia -- Buprenorphine analgesia in chronic pain -- Buprenorphine in maintenance therapy -- Buprenorphine pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics -- Buprenorphine metabolism and drug-drug interactions -- Buprenorphine: side effects and tolerability -- Buprenorphine and opioid rotation -- Methadone and buprenorphine use during the perinatal period -- Methadone and buprenorphine prescribing in the palliative care population -- Methadone prescribing in the sickle cell patient -- Methadone and buprenorphine analgesia in older patients. Methadone and buprenorphine are the only two opioids that are indicated for the management of both pain and opioid-related drug addiction. Both present unique challenges to the general practitioner and pain specialist, requiring a separate analysis from the rest of the drugs in the same family. Handbook of Methadone Prescribing and Buprenorphine Therapy is an invaluable guide to the safe use of these opioids. Authored by clinical and academic leaders from a variety of settings and backgrounds, this book includes chapters on pharmacology, adverse effects, safe rotation from other opioids, cardiac toxicity, prescribing, pharmacokinetics, equianalgesic dose, and replacement therapy. This comprehensive text provides clinicians, researchers, policy-makers and academicians a resource for all the relevant points in methadone prescribing and buprenorphine therapy. English. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xvii, 298 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781461469742 1461469740 |