The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Pain Management
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: January 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 587
ISBN-13: 9780781723770
Subjects: Hospital administration & management; Pain & pain management; Reference works; Pain (Medical Aspects); Handbooks, manuals, etc; Pain Medicine; Reference; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Pain; Hospital Administration; Anesthesiology; Diseases; Medical / Pain Medicine; Analgesia; Treatment; therapy; Handbooks
Description: The Second Edition of this highly popular pocket guide presents the state-of-the-art approaches to pain management that are currently taught and practiced at the Massachusetts General Hospital. This completely revised new edition is even more user-friendly and clinical than its predecessor. All chapters are updated and 15 new chapters cover epidemiology of pain; quantitative sensory testing; neuroradiology; psychopharmacology for pain; pre-emptive analgesia for acute pain; chronic pain and the difficult patient; physical therapy in chronic pain; neuropathic pain syndromes; depression and pain; pain and drug addiction; pain and suffering; symptom management; palliative care; radiotherapy and cancer pain; and radiopharmaceuticals. A great pocket reference that can be used on the floor daily. (Product Description).