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PAIN MANAGEMENT - HOT TOPICS
Pain Management - Hot Topics
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By
Edgar Ross, MD, Director of Pain Management Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

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Description
This book provides concise, easily accessible, up-to-date information on pain management from one of the leading authorities in the field. The latest drug therapy is a key feature. Well written, with tables, charts, and graphs for easy access, this volume is sure to earn a spot in your coat pocket.

Audience
Primary care physicians, anesthesiologists, neurologists

Contents
Introduction
1. The Assessment of a Patient in Pain
2. Pharmaceuticals Used in Pain Management - Opiate Therapy for Non-Cancer Pain
3. Acute Pain Management
4. Overview of Chronic Pain Management
5. Which Patients Should be sent to Pain Management Centers
6. Peripheral neuropathy
7. RSD and Causalgia
8. Phantom limb pain
9. Myofascial pain
10. Fibromyalgia
11. The Management of Arthritis pain
12. Acute shingles pain and postherpetic neuralgia
13. Headache
14. Oralfacial pain
15. Chest wall pain
16. Spinal Pain
17. Chronic Abdominal pain
18. Pelvic pain
19. Genital pain syndromes
20. Upper and Lower Extremity Pain Syndromes
21. HIV/AIDS pain
22. Cancer pain
23. Palliative care

Bibliographic details
Paperback, 464 pages, publication date: FEB-2004
ISBN-13: 978-1-56053-596-6
ISBN-10: 1-56053-596-2
Imprint: HANLEY AND BELFUS MEDICAL PUBLISHERS


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