Acute Pain Management: A Practical Guide - Softcover

Macintyre, Pamela E.; Reagan, James W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 070202581X ISBN 13: 9780702025815

Publisher: Bailliere Tindall, 2001

Synopsis

"Acute Pain Management" is an authoritative and practical guide to the safe and effective management of conventional forms of analgesia, written by experts in this field. The concisely written text is supplemented with useful checklists, flow charts and key points that can be readily referred to during treatment of a patient. This second edition has been extensively revised and updated throughout, with the addition of three new chapters and a section of multiple choice questions to aid with examination preparation. All those involved in pain management will find this an invaluable guide to clinical practice.

About this title

About the Author

Stephan Schug is a medical graduate from the University of Cologne in Germany. At this University he also completed his MD by thesis in clinical pharmacology and his specialist training in anaesthesia, intensive care and pain medicine. After working for the University of Cologne as a Clinical Lecturer and Co-Director of its Cancer Pain Management Center, he moved to Auckland, New Zealand in 1989.

In Auckland, he worked initially for Auckland Hospital as a Temporary Acting Specialist in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, before joining the Pharmacology Department of the University of Auckland as a Senior Lecturer and Head of its Section of Anaesthetics in 1991. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1994 and became full Professor and the first Chair of Anaesthesiology of the University of Auckland in 2000. Throughout his 12 years in Auckland, Stephan Schug had a clinical role as a staff specialist in anaesthesia and pain medicine at Auckland Hospital and the inaugural director of its pain service.

When Stephan Schug moved to Perth in 2001, he maintained his linkage to the University of Auckland as an Honorary Professor of Anaesthesiology, while taking up his new role as Associate Professor, then Professor in the Pharmacology Unit of the School of Medicine and Pharmacology of the University of Western Australia. In 2006, he succeeded Professor Teik Oh, the Inaugural Chair of Anaesthesia at UWA, who retired. Stephan Schug's clinical role is Director of Pain.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bailliere Tindall
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 070202581X
• ISBN 13: 9780702025815
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 272