Handbook of Pain Management in Practice - Softcover

Ranjani S, Sree

 
9789352500000: Handbook of Pain Management in Practice
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9352500008 ISBN 13: 9789352500000
Publisher: Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, 2015

Synopsis

Handbook of Pain Management in Practice provides an overview of pain management, including acute and chronic pain, and the principles of treatment. The book is a reference tool for the evaluation of pain and also provides practical information regarding diagnosis and treatment of disorders causing pain.

Divided into 21 chapters, the book begins with the basics of pain, assessment of the patient, and pharmacotherapy of pain. Further chapters discuss specific types of pain, including headache, back ache, abdominal pain and cancer pain. Each chapter provides treatment guidelines based on symptoms. Concluding chapters feature discussion on emergencies in pain practice, physiotherapy and rehabilitation, and interventions in pain management practice.

 38 images and 24 tables enhance the text in this practical resource for GPs, internists, students and teachers.

Key Points

  • Overview of pain management covering a range of pain symptoms
  • Other topics include emergencies, physiotherapy and rehabilitation, and interventions
  • 62 images and tables

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About the Author

Sree Ranjani S MBBS DA DNB (Anesthesiology) FIPM
Consultant, Anaesthesiology and Pain Management, Sankara Kidney Hospital, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Assistant Professor, Department of Anaesthesiology, Tagore Medical College and Hospital, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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Publisher
Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9352500008
ISBN 13 
9789352500000
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
232