Pain Medicine and Management: Just the Facts
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Overview
A quick reference to the management of pain for specialists as well as general medical practitioners and residents. Written in a concise bulleted format, the content is limited to only the essential facts necessary for assessment and treatment of common pain conditions and presentations. A perfect review tool for both the anesthesia and pain medicine board exams.
Synopsis
This concise, yet comprehensive review is the perfect tool to prepare for certification, re-certification, CME–or for use as a clinical refresher. Featuring the insights of the world’s leading authorities, its highly efficient format conveniently condenses and simplifies only the most important content, for maximum yield and comprehension.
Features:
*Perfect for pain medicine and anesthesiology exams–or as a concise clinical consult on the major presentations and interventions in pain
*Standardized, bulleted format highlights and summarizes key concepts, to assure quick absorption of the material and reinforce your understanding of even the most difficult topics
*All key topics covered including physiology, patient assessment, therapeutics and interventional therapies, chronic and acute pain, disability, special techniques, and much more
*Gain easy access to state-of-the-art alternative treatments such as acupuncture and TENS, new treatments for AIDS- and cancer-related pain, and more
*Chapters are logically organized to help focus your study and provide quick access to topics:
ABBREVIATED CONTENTS:
*Test Preparation and Planning
*Basic Physiology
*Evaluation of the Pain Patient
*Analgesic Pharmacology
*Acute Pain Management
*Regional Pain
*Chronic Pain Management
*Special Techniques in Pain Management
*Disability
Mark S. Wallace, MD, University of California, San Diego, CA
Doody Review Services
Reviewer:Michael F O'Connor, MD(University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine)
Description:This is another entry into the growing category of reference books patterned after several popular series in the lay press. Unlike the manuals or handbooks of yesteryear, which were designed to fit (barely) into the pocket of a lab coat, this is a full-size book intended to fit neatly into a pack or pile of papers. It covers the entire range of pain medicine with a large number (70) of brief chapters (370 pages). Most chapters are tersely written, with heavy reliance on the bulleted format.
Purpose:This book is clearly targeted at anesthesia residents and fellows participating in pain management, with explicit recognition of how its content reflects the syllabus for the pain boards. It is also intended to be a concise and highly useful reference for those who are called upon to manage pain less frequently -- especially private practitioners and nonanesthesiologists (particularly rehabilitation physicians and neurologists). There has clearly been a need for such a book, and I anticipate that this will become a staple in pain clinics everywhere.
Audience:The list of authors is enormous, and they represent a cross section of the state-of-the-art in pain medicine. The book is clearly oriented to the practice of clinical pain management, with only a brief review of clinically relevant biology in the early portion of the book. Most of the relevant biology is embedded is relevant chapter -- the kind of marriage of science and practice that most trainees desire and most quality teachers provide.
Features:The book sections and chapters are organized to mirror clinical pain management. The sections on acute, regional, and chronic pain include chapters that cover every important clinical problem in these domains. Special procedures unique to pain management are similarly covered. Procedures which might be performed by either trainees in pain or by the competent/occasional practitioner are generally well described and covered in appropriate detail, although the quantity and quality of the illustrations is highly variable and generally inferior to better known books in the field. The chapters on disability and return to work are brief and perhaps either too short or too ambitious. The brief index is less than helpful in locating valuable information in the dense text, which will frustrate some users.
Assessment:Residents and fellows may prefer this book to any out there, and are likely to read it before any of the longer, more definitive books on pain. It will be an invaluable reference in any clinic where pain is or might be managed, and an extraordinarily useful reference for practitioners who require a concise manual for pain management.
Editorials
From The Critics
Reviewer: Michael F O'Connor, MD(University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine)Description: This is another entry into the growing category of reference books patterned after several popular series in the lay press. Unlike the manuals or handbooks of yesteryear, which were designed to fit (barely) into the pocket of a lab coat, this is a full-size book intended to fit neatly into a pack or pile of papers. It covers the entire range of pain medicine with a large number (70) of brief chapters (370 pages). Most chapters are tersely written, with heavy reliance on the bulleted format.
Purpose: This book is clearly targeted at anesthesia residents and fellows participating in pain management, with explicit recognition of how its content reflects the syllabus for the pain boards. It is also intended to be a concise and highly useful reference for those who are called upon to manage pain less frequently — especially private practitioners and nonanesthesiologists (particularly rehabilitation physicians and neurologists). There has clearly been a need for such a book, and I anticipate that this will become a staple in pain clinics everywhere.
Audience: The list of authors is enormous, and they represent a cross section of the state-of-the-art in pain medicine. The book is clearly oriented to the practice of clinical pain management, with only a brief review of clinically relevant biology in the early portion of the book. Most of the relevant biology is embedded is relevant chapter — the kind of marriage of science and practice that most trainees desire and most quality teachers provide.
Features: The book sections and chapters are organized to mirror clinical pain management. The sections on acute, regional, and chronic pain include chapters that cover every important clinical problem in these domains. Special procedures unique to pain management are similarly covered. Procedures which might be performed by either trainees in pain or by the competent/occasional practitioner are generally well described and covered in appropriate detail, although the quantity and quality of the illustrations is highly variable and generally inferior to better known books in the field. The chapters on disability and return to work are brief and perhaps either too short or too ambitious. The brief index is less than helpful in locating valuable information in the dense text, which will frustrate some users.
Assessment: Residents and fellows may prefer this book to any out there, and are likely to read it before any of the longer, more definitive books on pain. It will be an invaluable reference in any clinic where pain is or might be managed, and an extraordinarily useful reference for practitioners who require a concise manual for pain management.
3 Stars from Doody