Edited by
Harald Breivik, MD, DMSc, FRCA, Professor, Department Anaesthesiology, Rikshospitalet University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Michael Shipley, MA, MD, FRCP, Consultant Rheumatologist, Centre for Rheumatology, University College Hospital, London, UK
Description
This prestigious text offers the most up-to-date advice on the assessment and treatment of pain. Derived from the highly acclaimed journals
Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology and Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology, this fully updated volume discusses
the basic principles of pain, its diagnosis, the recognition of ‘red' flags indicating a greater risk of serious causes and ‘yellow'
flags indicating a greater risk of developing more chronic pain, and the evidence-based management of a variety of conditions. Illustrated
throughout, the book draws upon the expertise of some of the World's leading experts in the field, providing a publication that gives
a truly international perspective to the management of pain.
Audience:
Specialist registrar and consultant rheumatologists, anaesthetists and any physicians with an interest in pain management – orthopaedists,
back pain specialists, neurologists – in addition to some primary care physicians
