Clinical Pain Management: A Practical Guide - Softcover

Lynch, Mary E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1444330691 ISBN 13: 9781444330694

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

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Clinical Pain Management takes a practical, interdisciplinary approach to the assessment and management of pain. Concise template chapters serve as a quick reference to physicians, anesthetists and neurologists, as well as other specialists, generalists, and trainees managing pain. Based on the International Association for the Study of Pain's clinical curriculum on the topic, this reference provides to-the-point best-practice guidance in an easy-to-follow layout including tables, bullets, algorithms and guidelines.

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Edited by
Mary E Lynch, MD FRCPC, Professor, Departments Psychiatry, Anesthesiology and Pharmacology, Dalhousie University, Director Pain Management Unit, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Center, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Kenneth D Craig, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Senior Investigator, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Philip WH Peng, MBBS FRCPC, Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesia, University of Toronto; Director, Chronic Pain Program, Department of Anesthesia, University Health Network & Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Improve your patient's quality of life by increasing your knowledge of practical pain control

Pain is the most pervasive and debilitating of all experiences. It can be acute and short lived or develop into a chronic condition that destroys quality of life. But most pain can be managed - and this book will show you how. Based on the International Association for the Study of Pain's core clinical curriculum, and edited and written by leading international experts, Clinical Pain Management presents practical approaches for:

• The assessment of pain
• Pharmacological, interventional, psychological and complimentary management approaches
• Regional and disease-related pain states
• Pain in children, older people, and other special populations

Algorithms and best-practice guidelines ensure all physicians will benefit from the guidance in this concise book as they strive to improve their patient's well-being.

Titles of Related Interest
Evidence-based Chronic Pain Management
Stannard, Kalso, Ballantyne (eds); ISBN 978-1-4051-5291-4

Pain Management: Expanding the Pharmacological Options
McCleane; ISBN 978-1-4051-7823-5

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Improve your patient's quality of life by increasing your knowledge of practical pain control
 
Pain is the most pervasive and debilitating of all experiences. It can be acute and short lived or develop into a chronic condition that destroys quality of life. But most pain can be managed - and this book will show you how. Based on the International Association for the Study of Pain's core clinical curriculum, and edited and written by leading international experts, Clinical Pain Management presents practical approaches for:
* The assessment of pain
* Pharmacological, interventional, psychological and complimentary management approaches
* Regional and disease-related pain states
* Pain in children, older people, and other special populations
 
Algorithms and best-practice guidelines ensure all physicians will benefit from the guidance in this concise book as they strive to improve their patient's well-being.
 
Titles of Related Interest
Evidence-based Chronic Pain Management
Stannard, Kalso, Ballantyne (eds); ISBN 978-1-4051-5291-4
 
Pain Management: Expanding the Pharmacological Options
McCleane; ISBN 978-1-4051-7823-5

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1444330691
• ISBN 13: 9781444330694
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384
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