Recommended Pain Management Study Guide

The following are suggested pain management resources useful when studying pain management in general and when preparing for the IVAPM Pain Practitioner Certification examination:



Small Animal

 

1. Veterinary Clinics of North America (VCNA) Small Animal Practice Volume 29, Number 3 (May 1999): Clinical Anesthesia.

 

Not available on the web.

 

 
2. VCNA Small Animal Practice Volume 30, Number 4 (July 2000): Management of Pain. 


Not available on the web.

 


3. VCNA Small Animal Practice Volume 32, Issue 4 (July 2002): Topics in Feline Surgery: Feline Perioperative Pain Management. Leigh A Lamont. Pages 747-763


http://www.theclinics.com/periodicals/vsp/issues/contents?issue_key=S0195-5616(00)X0003-4

 


4. VCNA Small Animal Practice Volume 35, Issue 4 (July 2005): Veterinary Dentistry: Regional Anesthesia and Analgesia for Oral and Dental Procedures. Judy Rochette. Pages 1041-1058


http://www.theclinics.com/periodicals/vsp/issues/contents?issue_key=S0195-5616(05)X0021-3



5. VCNA Small Animal Practice Volume 35, Number 6 (November, 2005): Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy.

http://www.theclinics.com/periodicals/vsp/issues/contents?issue_key=S0195-5616(05)X0023-7


6. VCNA Small Animal Practice Volume 38, Number 6 (November, 2008): Update on Pain Management. 

http://www.vetsmall.theclinics.com/issues/contents?issue_key=S0195-5616(08)X0007-5


7. Handbook of Veterinary Pain Management. Gaynor/Muir.  January, 2008. Mosby/Elsevier.


http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Veterinary-Management-James-Gaynor/dp/0323046797/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228343844&sr=8-2



8. Veterinary Anesthesia and Pain Management Secrets. Greene. December, 2001.  

 

http://www.amazon.com/Veterinary-Anesthesia-Pain-Management-Secrets/dp/1560534427/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228345282&sr=1-1

 


9. Animal Pain: A Practice-Oriented Approach to an Effective Pain Control in Animals. Hellebrekers. December, 2000.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Animal-Pain-Practice-Oriented-Approach-Effective/dp/9058050300/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228346567&sr=1-1



Equine


1. VCNA Equine Practice Volume 18, Number 1 (April 2002): Equine Pain Management and Anesthesia.


http://www.vetequine.theclinics.com/issues/contents?issue_key=S0749-0739(00)X0001-6



Exotic Animals


1. VCNA Exotic Animal Practice Volume 4, Number 1 (January 2001): Analgesia and Anesthesia


Not available on line.
Acupuncture


1. Xie's Veterinary Acupuncture. Xie. February, 2007.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Xies-Veterinary-Acupuncture-Huisheng-Xie/dp/081381247X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228346856&sr=1-1



2. Veterinary Acupuncture: Ancient Art to Modern Medicine. Schoen. January, 2001.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Veterinary-Acupuncture-Ancient-Modern-Medicine/dp/032300945X/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228346905&sr=1-3



Physical Rehabilitation


1. VCNA Small Animal Practice Volume 35, Number 6 (November, 2005): Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy. 

http://www.theclinics.com/periodicals/vsp/issues/contents?issue_key=S0195-5616(05)X0023-7



Human Animals


1. Weiner’s Pain Management: A Practical Guide for Clinicians. Boswell, Cole. August, 2005.


http://www.aapainmanage.org/literature/Books.php  

 

http://www.amazon.com/Weiners-Pain-Management-Practical-Clinicians/dp/0849322626/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228356484&sr=8-1



2. Pain Management Secrets. Kanner. October, 2007.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=kanner+secrets&x=0&y=0


3. Pain Medicine & Management: just the facts. Wallace, Staats. May, 2004.

http://www.amazon.com/Pain-Medicine-Management-Just-Facts/dp/0071411828/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228346072&sr=1-2