Guidelines

Disease Management

Acute Pain

Evidence-Based Guidelines for Regional Anesthesia in the Patient Receiving Antithrombotic or Thrombolytic Therapy—American Society

Assessment and Management of Acute Pain-Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement

Practice Guidelines for Acute Pain Management in the Perioperative Setting-American Society of Anesthesiologists

ASPAN Pain and Comfort Guideline-American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses

The Use of ‘As Needed’ Range Orders for Opioid Analgesics in the Management of Acute Pain-American Society for Pain Management Nursing and the American Pain Society

Back Pain

Diagnosis and Treatment of Low Back Pain-American College of Physicians and the American Pain Society

Nonpharmacologic Therapies for Acute and Chronic Low Back Pain-American Pain Society and American College of Physicians

Adult Low Back Pain-Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement

Comprehensive evidence-based guidelines for interventional techniques in the management of chronic spinal pain—American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians.

Breakthrough Pain

Consensus Panel Recommendations for the Assessment and Management of Breakthrough Pain-Part I Assessment

Consensus Panel Recommendations for the Assessment and Management of Breakthrough Pain-Part II Management

Cancer Pain

Clinical recommendations for the management of cancer pain—European Society for Medical Oncology.

NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology: Adult Cancer Pain-National Comprehensive Cancer Network

NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology: Pediatric Cancer Pain-National Comprehensive Cancer Network

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Clinical Practice Guideline on the Treatment of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome-American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons

Chronic Noncancer Pain

Consensus guidelines for the selection and implantation of patients with noncancer pain for intrathecal drug delivery

Practice guidelines for chronic pain management—American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force and the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine.

Assessment and Management of Chronic Pain-Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

Evidence-based guidelines for complex regional pain syndrome type 1—CRPS I task force.

Fibromyalgia

Preliminary Diagnostic Criteria for Fibromyalgia and Measurement of Symptom Severity—American College of Rheumatology

Management of Fibromyalgia Syndrome-American Pain Society

Headache

Guideline on the drug treatment of migraine—European Federation of Neurological Societies

Neuropathic Pain

Guidelines on neuropathic pain assessment: 2009 revision—European Federation of Neurological Societies

Guidelines on the pharmacological treatment of neuropathic pain: 2009 revision—European Federation of Neurological Societies

Guideline on the use of skin biopsy in the diagnosis of small fiber neuropathy—European Federation of Neurological Societies and the Peripheral Nerve Society

Pharmacological management of neuropathic pain in adults in non-specialist settings—National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.

Diagnosis and Treatment of Trigeminal Neuralgia-American Academy of Neurology and European Federation of Neurological Societies

Pharmacologic Management of Neuropathic Pain: Evidence-based Recommendations-International Association for the Study of Pain

Consensus Guidelines: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathic Pain

Practice Parameter: Treatment of Postherpetic Neuralgia. An Evidence-based Report-American Academy of Neurology

Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathic Pain Consensus Guidelines for Treatment-American Society of Pain Educators

Osteoarthritis

Recommendations for the management of hip and knee osteoarthritis: part III: Changes in evidence through January 2009—Osteoarthritis Research Society International

OARSI recommendations for the management of hip and knee osteoarthritis, Part II: OARSI evidence-based, expert consensus guidelines-Osteoarthritis Research Society International

Association Links
  • SLEEPClinician.com
  • American Academy of Physical Medicine
  • American Academy of Pain Management
  • American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM)
  • American Pain Society
  • PAINWeek
  • Oncology Nursing Society
  • American Society for Pain Management Nursing
  • World Institute of Pain
 
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