Current therapy in pain.

9781416048367

Current therapy in pain.

Ed. by Howard S. Smith.

Elsevier Saunders

2009

674 pages

$129.00

Hardcover

RB127

With the publication of this collection, the topic of the relatively new field of pain medicine has been added to the publishers "Current Therapy" series. Edited by Smith (an anesthesiologist associated with Albany Medical College, Albany Medical Center, and Albany College of Pharmacy), the volume contains 89 chapters, starting with discussion of the taxonomy and pathophysiology of pain. Issues of assessment are then explored, followed by discussion of treatment strategies for acute pain, including perioperative use of COX-2 agents, patient-controlled analgesia, perioperative epidural analgesia, and interpleural analgesia. Attention next turns to chronic pain, with contributors offering discussions of cancer pain management and pain management of chronic pain in different areas of the body and as associated with different conditions, including, to cite some examples, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, neuralgia, spinal cord injury, poststroke pain, pain related to HIV infection, and sickle cell anemia. A section on special population addresses pain in children, the elderly, the palliative care population, and the substance abuse population. The remaining 37 chapters explore different approaches to pain management, including pharmacological, behavioral medicine, physical medicine, neuromodulation, complementary and alternative medicine, neurosurgical, and interventional approaches.

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