This book provides a practical resource for inpatient pain management for a variety of populations. Pain treatment for patients with multiple sclerosis, liver failure, sickle cell anemia, organ related pain, autoimmune diseases and other conditions are highlighted throughout the book enabling the reader to develop a thorough understanding of how to appropriately analyse these conditions and put together a suitable treatment plan for a variety of pain-related cases. 

Guide to the Inpatient Pain Consult, 2^nd Edition has been fully revised featuring new chapters examining the management of patients with peripheral nerve stimulation, addiction problems, terminal illness as well as use of neuromodulation for managing inpatient pain, common medications used in the inpatient setting (with different routes and doses) and infusion therapy. Trainees and practising internists, hospitalists, surgeons, and anaesthesiologists will find this book to be an essential resource for effectively treating patients with pain within the inpatient setting.  

Alaa Abd-Elsayed is the Medical Director of UW Health Pain Clinics and a professor of Anesthesiology. He has published more than 500 peer-reviewed manuscripts, edited 60 books, and serves as an editor on several journals. Dr. Abd-Elsayed has edited 5 books with Springer. Dr. Abd-Elsayed serves on the board of directors of ASIPP and on the executive board of NANS. He presented dozens of presentations and gave invited lectures nationally and internationally.