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Practical pain management

Thoroughly revised to reflect contemporary diagnostics and treatment, this Third Edition is a comprehensive and practical reference on the assessment and management of acute and chronic pain. This edition features 14 new chapters and is filled with new information on invasive procedures...pharmacologic interventions...neuraxial pharmacotherapy...physical and occupational therapies...diagnostic techniques...pain in terminally ill patients...cancer pain...visceral pain...rheumatologic disorders...managed care...and medicolegal issues. Reorganized with two new sections focusing on diagnostics and cancer pain. A Brandon-Hill recommended title
Print Book, English, ©2002
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, ©2002
Handbooks and manuals
xviii, 829 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
9780781731607, 0781731607
47966071
Sect. I. Foundations
Sect. II. Diagnostics
Sect. III. Therapeutic modalities
Sect. IV. Pharmacologic intervention
Sect. V. The treatment of selected pain disorders
Sect. VI. Cancer pain
Sect. VII. Pain and medicolegal issues
Sect. VIII. Selected topics
Revised edition of: Handbook of pain management. 2nd ed. c1994