Principles and Practice of Pain Management - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0071352090 ISBN 13: 9780071352093

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US, 2003

Synopsis

A comprehensive - one-stop resource covering the field of pain medicine in about 1000 printed pages. Truly inter-disciplinary, with coverage of all major approaches to pain, from pharmacologic and neurologic to behavioural and technologic, in reflection of increasing use of multi-disciplinary pain clinics. Includes coverage of the basic science of pain in addition to clinical diagnosis and therapeutics, so readers have access to the important anatomical, physiological, and molecular basis of pain. Each chapter has been contributed by a leading national authority, giving readers trustworthy, accurate, updated information from the best clinicians in the field. Diagnosis section provides the latest developments and technology in pain medicine, including electrodiagnostic approaches and functional MRI. Includes a section on behavioural aspects of pain, with multiple chapters addressing this increasingly important and utilized aspect of pain medicine. Also includes chapters on legal, ethical, and practical aspects of running a pain medicine clinic, so readers learn how to "set up shop". This section helps define the book as a reference-text for the specialty of pain medicine.

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About the Author

Carol A. Warfield, MD Edward Lowenstein Professor of Anesthesia Harvard Medical School Chief, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston, Massachusetts Zahid H. Bajwa, MB Assistant Professor of Anesthesia Harvard Medical School Director of Education and Clinical Pain Research Beth Israel Deaconess Medical

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0071352090
• ISBN 13: 9780071352093
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 900
• Editor: Warfield Carol A.