Includes bibliographical references and index.

The problem of acute pain -- Standards, guidelines, practice statements, and the Joint Commission Standard for Acute Pain Management -- The art and science of pain assessment -- Assessment tools for acute pain -- Assessing pain in specialty populations -- Medication management with nonopioid medications -- Opioids analgesics -- Coanalgesics for additive pain relief -- The effect of opioid polymorphisms and patient response to medications -- Complementary and integrative therapies for pain management -- Perioperative pain management -- Patient-controlled analgesia -- Epidural analgesia -- Regional techniques for postoperative pain relief -- Chronic pain patients with acute pain -- Sickle disease -- Patients with active use or a history of substance abuse -- Abdominal pain -- Emergency room, trauma, and critical care patients with pain.