Current Diagnosis & Treatment Of Pain

Description:
The first truly clinically focused book on the management of the full spectrum of pain syndromes CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment of Pain represents the first clinical and truly management-oriented book on pain medicine. It covers with equal breadth and depth the management of the full array of both acute and chronic pain conditions. What is especially noteworthy about the approach here is its ability to convey management strategies that correlate the severity of pain with the level of therapeutic intervention required to assuage it. The full array of drug treatment and analgesic strategies are discussed in detail, and often conveyed through a detailed management algorithm in each chapter. The book's editorial board--including a pain medicine specialist, an internist, and a nurse practitioner--reflects how multi-disciplinary the treatment of pain has become in recent years.

Review:
'To provide a quick reference source for the primary care physician is an extremely worthy objective. By keeping everything simple and practical, the authors have successfully achieved their goal...This book is practical and succinct, providing clear information and a stepwise approach to dealing with various clinical situations. There are quite a few books available on pain, but none that specifically target primary care physicians that provide them with practical information to manage their patients. 3 Stars.'--Doody's Review Service Doody's 20060929

Table of Contents:
Preface; 1. The Current Issues in Pain Management, John D. Loeser; 2. Assessment of Pain & Common Pain Syndromes, Martha L. Twaddle and Kelly J. Coooke; 3. Pharmacologic Therapies for Pain, Jay Thomas and Charles F. von Gunten; 4. Interventional Procedures for Pain Control, Samuel Samuel, Salim Hayek, and Michael Stanton-Hicks; 5. Psychological Interventions, Dennis C. Turk, Tasha Burwinkle, and Kati Thieme; 6. Rehabilitation Issues: Pain Control, Steven P. Stanos and Mark D. Tyburski; 7. Pain and Addictive Disease, Steven D. Passik, Kenneth L. Kirsh, and Russell K. Portenoy; 8. Cancer Pain, Judith A. Paice; 9. Pain Management in Palliative Care, Jamie H. Van Roenn, Judith A. Paice, and Michael E. Preodor; 10. Neuropathic Pain, R. Norman Harden; 11. Visceral Pain, Timothy J. Ness; 12. Headaches, Michel Volcy Gomez and Stewart J. Tepper; 13. Back Pain, Edgar Ross; 14. Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis, Daniel J. Mazanec, Russell C. DeMicco, and Edwin L. Capulong; 15. Fibromyalgia, Roland Staud; 16. Sickle Cell Disease, Eufemia Jacob, and Elizabeth Ely; 17. Chronic Pelvin Pain, Fred M. Howard; 18. Chest Pain, Brad Stuart; 19. Temporomandibular Disorders and Orofacial Pain, James Fricton; 20. Pain in HIV and AIDS, Gaurav Mathur and Peter A. Selwyn; 21. Pain in the Elderly, Joshua M. Hauser; 22. Legal and Regulatory Issues in Pain Management, Perry G. Fine and Scott Fishman; Index

Author Biography:
Jamie Von Roenn, MD Director, Division of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care Robert H. Lurie Cancer Center Michael Preodor, MD Professor of Medicine Director, Chronic Pain Management Judy Paice, PhD, RN Director, Nurse Practitioner's Unit Robert H. Lurie Cancer Center ALL OF: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL