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Table of Contents:

Contributing Authors
Foreword to the Second Edition
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 The History of Neural Blockade and Pain Management 3
2 Neural Physiology and Local Anesthetic Action 35
3 Properties, Absorption, and Disposition of Local Anesthetic Agents 55
4 Clinical Pharmacology of Local Anesthetic Agents 97
5 Modification of Responses to Surgery by Neural Blockade: Clinical Implications 129
6 Perioperative Management of Patients for Neural Blockade 179
7 Spinal (Subarachnoid) Neural Blockade 203
8 Epidural Neural Blockade 243
9 Caudal Epidural Blockade 323
10 The Upper Extremity: Somatic Block 345
11 The Lower Extremity: Somatic Blockade 373
12 Intravenous Regional Neural Blockade 395
13 Sympathetic Neural Blockade of Upper and Lower Extremity 411
14 Celiac and Hypogastric Plexus, Intercostal, Interpleural, and Peripheral Neural Blockade of the Thorax and Abdomen 451
15 Somatic Blockade of Head and Neck 489
16 Neural Blockade of Oral and Circumoral Structures: Intraoral Approach 515
17 Neural Blockade for Ophthalmologic Surgery 533
18 Neural Blockade for Obstetrics and Gynecologic Surgery 557
19 Neural Blockade for Outpatients 605
20 Neural Blockade for Pediatric Surgery 615
21 Complications of Local Anesthetic Neural Blockade 639
22 Complications of Neurolytic Neural Blockade 663
23.1 Introduction to Pain Mechanisms: Implications for Neural Blockade 675
23.2 Introduction to Pain in Pediatric and Neonatal Patients 715
24 Physiologic and Pharmacologic Substrates of Nociception and Nerve Injury 727
25 Psychological Aspects of Pain: Implications of Neural Blockade 781
26 Acute Pain Management and Acute Pain Services 793
27 Diagnostic and Prognostic Neural Blockade 837
28 Back Pain and the Role of Neural Blockade 879
29 Spinal Route of Analgesia: Opioids and Future Options 915
30 Neuropathology of Neurolytic Agents 985
31 Techniques for Neurolytic Neural Blockade 1007
32 Neurostimulation and Percutaneous Neural Destructive Techniques 1063
33 Evolution of the Specialty of Pain Medicine and the Multidisciplinary Approach to Pain 1113
34 New Horizons: An Essay 1135
Subject Index 1145