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Miscellaneous Analgesic Agents

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Pain medicine can be extremely challenging, and the wide array of patient responses and reactions to the numerous agents available can limit their use. Often, several medications will need to be combined in order to produce a satisfactory outcome. This chapter will cover several classes of medications that may be employed as a part of a multimodal analgesic regimen for a variety of pain states.

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  1. Anesthesiology – Department of Pain Medicine, Rutgers University – New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA

    Shawn Amin

  2. Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, University Hospital, Rutgers – NJMS, Newark, NJ, USA

    Christy Anthony

  3. Department of Anesthesiology, Rutgers, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA

    Vincent Reformato & Andrew G. Kaufman

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Correspondence to Andrew G. Kaufman .

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Pain Medicine Fellowship, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Department of Neurology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

    Yury Khelemsky

  2. Pain Medicine Fellowship, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

    Anuj Malhotra

  3. Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine Fellowship, Department of Anesthesiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA

    Karina Gritsenko

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Amin, S., Anthony, C., Reformato, V., Kaufman, A.G. (2019). Miscellaneous Analgesic Agents. In: Khelemsky, Y., Malhotra, A., Gritsenko, K. (eds) Academic Pain Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18005-8_15

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