Essentials of pain medicine edited by Honorio T. Benzon, Srinivasa N. Raja, Spencer S. Liu, Scott M. Fishman, Steven P. Cohen

Contributor(s):

Benzon, Honorio T [editor, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology, Chicago, Illinois]
Raja, Srinivasa N [editor, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine and Neurology, Baltimore, Maryland]
Liu, Spencer S [editor, MD, Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medical College New York, New York]
Fishman, Scott M [editor, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Chief, University of California, Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, California]
Cohen, Steven P [editor, MD, Chief of Pain Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Elsevier Philadelphia 2018Edition: FourthDescription: 852 pages illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780323401968

Subject(s):

Contents:

Section I: Basic considerations- Section II: Clinical evaluation and diagnostic examinations; Section III: Pharmacology and pharmacologic modalities; Section IV: Therapeutic interventions; Section V: Perioperative pain management; Section VI: Chronic pain syndromes; Section VII: Interventional techniques for pain management; Section VIII: Cancer pain; Section IX: Other nerve blocks in pain medicine

Summary: This third edition offers an accessible and concise, yet complete, overview of today's theory and practice of pain medicine and regional anesthesia. From a review of basic considerations through local anesthetics and nerve block techniques, this book provides the reader with an excellent tool for exam review or practice of Pain Management. Includes new topics such as: imaging in pain medicine, radiation safety, issues associated with the use of narcotics, intraarticular and intraperitoneal use of opioids, pain management in the emergency room and in the intensive care unit, pain management issues during pregnancy, geriatric pain, and hospice care and end-of-life issues. New chapters on interventional procedures include discography, intradiscal electrothermal coagulation (IDET), vertebroplasty, and piriformis injections. Truncal blocks and neuraxial blocks and anticoagulants are added to the section on nerve blocks.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

This third edition offers an accessible and concise, yet complete, overview of today's theory and practice of pain medicine and regional anesthesia. From a review of basic considerations through local anesthetics and nerve block techniques, this book provides the reader with an excellent tool for exam review or practice of Pain Management. Includes new topics such as: imaging in pain medicine, radiation safety, issues associated with the use of narcotics, intraarticular and intraperitoneal use of opioids, pain management in the emergency room and in the intensive care unit, pain management issues during pregnancy, geriatric pain, and hospice care and end-of-life issues. New chapters on interventional procedures include discography, intradiscal electrothermal coagulation (IDET), vertebroplasty, and piriformis injections. Truncal blocks and neuraxial blocks and anticoagulants are added to the section on nerve blocks.

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