The first clinically focused text dedicated to the newly emerging area of pain medicine known as opioid-induced hyperalgesia (OIH), Opioid-Induced Hyperalgesia provides pain specialists, anesthesiologists, and neurologists with the most current, cutting-edge research and therapeutic options for treating OIH patients. It supplies best practice guidelines for the effective assessment, diagnosis, and management of OIH?need-to-know information clinicians trust and can use in their practice. Organized to provide the information quickly and easily, the book includes dosage recommendations to help minimize the likelihood and/or delay onset of hyperglasia and covers management approaches such as opioid rotation and tapering, provide clinicians with alternative methods for treating OIH?s difficult, persistent, and varied problems. Additional ISBNs 9781420088991, 9781138112704, 9781282379374, 9781420089004, 1420088998, 1138112704, 1282379372, 1420089005, 9781420088991, 1420088998Opioid-Induced Hyperalgesia By: Jianren Mao Publisher: routledge Print ISBN: 9781138112704, 1138112704 other ISBNs: 9781420089004, 1420089005 Edition: 1st Copyright year: 2009