**Meet the editor**

Dr. Nabil A. Shallik is a senior consultant anesthesiologist at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), Qatar, an Assistant Professor of clinical anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medical College, Qatar, and an Assistant Professor of anesthesia at the Surgical Intensive Care Department, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Egypt. He has several academic degrees.

Dr. Shallik is the Deputy Head of Anesthesia Department at Rumilah Hospital and Ambulatory Care Center, part of Hamad Medical Corporation in Qatar. He has published more than 35 articles in local and international peer-reviewed medical journals, including perioperative, pain and airway management publications. He is a reviewer and editorial board member for a number of international peer-reviewed medical journals and an official reviewer at the Hamad Medical Research Center.

Dr. Shallik is the principal author of many book chapters and editor of many books as well. He is a pioneer in anesthesia education and a dedicated clinical teacher; he has more than 20 years of anesthesia, intensive care, pain and perioperative medicine practice and 15 years of dedicated anesthesia teaching.

Dr. Shallik is a core faculty member of the Anesthesia Residency Program, Hamad Medical Corporation, the first ACGME-I accredited program in the Middle East. He was awarded the Award of Excellence in medical education in Qatar, best teaching material from the Fifth International Sleep Surgery Society, (5th ISSS), second place in the 3D printing competition of the 3D challenge 2017 and first place in 2018 at Texas A&M University at Qatar. He received an innovation fund from the Academic Health System in HMC for development of many projects.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Chapter 1 **Non-Pharmacological Pain Management 1**

Chapter 2 **Pain Management for the Sickle Cell Patient 15**

Chapter 3 **Is Chronic Post-Surgical Pain Preventable? 35**

Abdulaziz Al-Mahrezi and Asma Al-Shidhani

Chapter 5 **Pain Management for Pregnant Women in the Opioid**

Chapter 6 **Pain Management in Patients with Impaired Kidney**

Chapter 7 **Management of Acute Pain in Obese Patients with**

Chapter 4 **Acute Pain Management in Intensive Care Patients: Facts**

and Mohammad Al Nobani

**and Figures 59**

Tariq Kazi

**Crisis Era 73**

**Function 99**

**Sleep Apnea 113**

Hammad

Ahmed El Geziry, Yasser Toble, Fathi Al Kadhi, Muhammad Pervaiz

Nissar Shaikh, Saher Tahseen, Qazi Zeesan Ul Haq, Gamal Al-Ameri, Adel Ganaw, Arshed Chanda, Muhammed Zubair Labathkhan and

Ahmed Zaghw, Mohamed Koronfel, Edward Podgorski, Sara Siddiqui, Arif Valliani, Arunabha Karmakar and Jaffar Khan

Shakhsanam Mirishova and Yasser Mahmoud Hammad Ali

Mustafa Rezk, Mohammed Azizuddin Imran and Malek Alali

Sayed Rahman, Ahmed Zaghw, Osama Elazzouny, Dhari Almenshid,

Thomas Zouki, Armen Haroutunian and Tennison Malcolm
