Treatment of Chronic Pain by Medical Approaches

From reviews of Deer, eds., Comprehensive Treatment of Chronic Pain by Medical, Interventional, and Integrative Approaches:

"Comprehensive Treatment of Chronic Pain by Medical, Interventional, and Integrative Approaches is a major textbook...
[I]t should be a part of all departmental libraries and in the reference collection of pain fellows and pain practitioners.  In fact, this text could be to pain as Miller is to general anesthesia." 

                               Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology

Edited by master clinician-experts appointed by the American Academy of Pain Medicine, this is a soft cover version of the Medical section of the acclaimed Deer, eds., Comprehensive Treatment of Chronic Pain by Medical, Interventional, and Integrative Approaches. It is intended as a primary reference for busy clinicians who seek up-to-date and authoritative information about medical approaches to treating chronic pain.

• Clinically focused resource on the medical management of chronic pain
• Leading edge topics, such as monitoring opioid use and abuse, the emerging role of cannabinoids in pain treatment, and the systems involved in nociceptive processing systems
• "Key Points" preview contents of each chapter

• analgesia
• anesthesia
• chronic pain
• drug
• drug abuse
• medical
• medical marijuana
• medication
• nociceptive processing
• non-opioid
• opioid
• pain management
• pain medicine
• pain pharmacotherapy
• pharmaceutical
• pharmacogenomics
• polypharmacy
• toxicology screening

From the book reviews:

“The purpose is to provide an evidence-based review of the indications and effectiveness of different drugs used in pain medicine. … The target audience is chronic pain physicians, but primary care physicians and other medical specialists, particularly rheumatologists, who treat patients with chronic illnesses also will find it most helpful. … This is a nice effort with good intentions and, overall, it is the most comprehensive book available dedicated solely to the discussion of medical interventions for treating chronic pain.” (Tariq M. Malik, Doody’s Book Reviews, April, 2015)

"Comprehensive Treatment of Chronic Pain by Medical, Interventional, and Integrative Approaches is a major textbook...[I]t should be a part of all departmental libraries and in the reference collection of pain fellows and pain practitioners. In fact, this text could be to pain as Miller is to general anesthesia." Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology

“Although the primary audience is chronic pain physicians and primary care givers, anyone managing patients with chronic pain conditions in their practice will find the book very useful. … The information is extremely practical and clinically useful...Both the content and the short discussions in each chapter make it a good pain reference for a busy practice.”   Doody’s Book Reviews

• President and CEO, Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology, The Center for Pain Relief, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Charleston, USA

  Timothy R. Deer

• Clinic Chief, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Stanford Pain Medicine Center, Redwood City, CA, USA, and Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, USA

  Michael S. Leong

• Department of Anesthesiology, Pennsylvania State University, College of Medicine, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, USA

  Vitaly Gordin

Timothy S. Deer, MD

Editor-in-Chief

President and CEO

The Center for Pain Relief

Charleston, WV USA

Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology

West Virginia University School of Medicine

Charleston, WV USA

Michael S. Leong, MD

Associate Editor-in-Chief

Clinic Chief

Stanford Pain Management Center

Redwood City, CA USA

Clinical Assistant Professor

Department of Anesthesiology

Stanford University School of Medicine

Stanford, CA USA

Vitaly Gordin, MD

Associate Editor, Medical Approaches

Associate Professor

Associate Vice Chair of Pain Management

Department of Anesthesiology

Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine

Hershey, PA USA

Director, Pain Medicine

Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

Hershey, PA USA

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