Overview
- Easy-to-read, practical, evidence-based guide to managing chronic pain conditions
- Each chapter starts with a step-by-step evaluation, medical and interventional options available, how and when to move from one option to another, and the level of evidence offered for each intervention
- Go-to guide for anyone who wants to quickly review management options before making changes in their management plan
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Table of contents (47 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
Organized across 46 chapters, the book begins with an introduction on chronic pain evaluation, and specifically stresses the importance of complete patient evaluation including social and psychological evaluation. Subsequent chapters then start with an evaluation, medical and interventional options available, how and when to move from one option to another and the level of evidence offered for each intervention. These unique chapter elements provide the reader with a case-based approach to managing their patients. Additionally, a brief discussion of epidemiology and pathophysiology of the disease process is included and the technical aspects of interventional techniques are reviewed.
Edited by a leader in the field with international contributing authors across pain medicine, Practical Chronic Pain Management this book is written primarily for anesthesiologists, pain specialists, rheumatologists, and primary care physicians.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL 60637
USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Practical Chronic Pain Management
Book Subtitle: A Case-Based Approach
Editors: Tariq Malik
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46675-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46674-9Published: 20 June 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46677-0Published: 21 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-46675-6Published: 19 June 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 399
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 24 illustrations in colour
Topics: Pain Medicine, Anesthesiology, Rheumatology