The Pain Management Handbook: A Concise Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment (Current Clinical Practice) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0896034232 ISBN 13: 9780896034235

Publisher: Humana Press Inc., 1998

Synopsis

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt. SAMUEL JoHNSON, The Rambler, no. 48 (September 1, 1750) Who among us has not experienced the suffering of a patient with chronic disease, who in addition to the vicissitudes of fatigue, anxiety, and frustration, must also deal with the suffering of pain? Who among us has not considered, and then reconsidered, whether a patient's complaints are worthy of a narcotic and thence worried about the social and legal implications of chronic use? Who among us has not refused pain medications to our patients for fear that use was turning into abuse? Finally, who among us would not have liked a clinical guide to a myriad of syndromes, all of which have pain as their common denominator, in the hopes of developing some strategy to prioritize treatment. Our purpose in preparing The Pain Management Handbook is to provide the informa­ tion needed by clinicians to develop strategies that optimize pain management. It is the goal of the editors and authors that the present handbook, above all else, will be clinically useful. Its aim is to provide practical information regarding the diagnosis and treatment of disorders causing pain, along with tables and graphics to provide the busy practitioner with rapid access to relevant data.

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Review

The presentation of pain by location is somewhat unique...[this book] is a solid and reasonably priced volume to add to the primary care providers' clinical library and adequately meets the purposes for which it was intended. - Journal of Pharmaceutical Care in Pain and Symptom Control, June 1999, Reviewer: Wendy M. Stein, Medical Director, Jewish Home for the Aging , Asst. Professor of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA

Synopsis

Seasoned clinicians comprehensively yet succinctly summarize their years of experience in the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic pain across a wide variety of medical conditions. Drawing on their extensive personal knowledge of internal medicine family practice rheumatology neurology cardiology as well as of urology oncology neurology physical medicine and gastroenterology they provide all the practical information needed by busy practitioners to initiate appropriate diagnostic tests and therapy- without having to consult other references. Each chapter examines the diseases that can cause pain in the affected area describes appropriate laboratory studies to confirm the diagnosis and discusses in detail the differential diagnosis of the pain. Treatment is presented in practical terms with specific but full information given on medications and dosages. Numerous tables and graphics and organization by anatomical systems allow rapid and easy access to all relevant data.

SMP Copy This comprehensive handbook of practical information regarding the diagnosis and treatment of pain is organized to give the busy practitioner rapid access to relevant data for the diagnosis and treatment of pain in every kind of disorder. Written by a multidisciplinary team of highly experienced clinicians the book concisely discusses the differential diagnosis of pain throughout the body describes appropriate diagnostic tests that will confirm the diagnosis and presents the key treatment options in practical terms complete with recommended medications and doses. The Pain Management Handbook will

Edition details

• Publisher: Humana Press Inc.
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0896034232
• ISBN 13: 9780896034235
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 390
• Editor: Gershwin M. Eric