Current Diagnosis & Treatment of Pain

Current Pain D&T will represent the first clinical and truly management oriented book on pain medicine. It will cover with equal breadth and depth the management of the full array of both acute and chronic pain conditions. What will be especially unique about the approach here will be its ability to convey management strategies that correlate the severity of pain with the level of therapeutic intervention required to assuage it. The full array of drug treatment and analgesic strategies will be discussed in detail, and often-conveyed through a detailed management algorithm in each chapter. The treatment of pain has also become very much a multi-disciplinary effort in recent years, and this will be reflected by the fact that our editorial board on this volume includes a pain medicine specialist, internist, and a nurse practitioner.
Table of contents

1. Epidemiology,
2. Effects of Unrelieved Pain
3. Cost to Society, etc.
4. Assessment of pain (history, physical, diagnosis)
5. Common Pain Syndromes
6. Nonopioids
7. Opioids
8. Adjuvants
9. Interventional Procedures
10. Psychological Interventions
11. Rehabilitation
12. Pain and Addictive Disease
13. Cancer pain
14. End-of-life pain
15. Neuropathic pain
16. Visceral pain
17. Headaches
18. Low back pain
19. Osteoarthritis/RA
20. Fibromyalgia
21. Sickle cell disease
22. Chronic pelvic pain
23. Chest pain
24. Orofacial pain
25. HIV-related pain
26. Legal, regulatory, practical issues in prescribing
27. The Pediatric Patient
28. The Geriatric Patient
Review quote

"To provide a quick reference source for the primary care physician is an extremely worthy objective. By keeping everything simple and practical, the authors have successfully achieved their goal...This book is practical and succinct, providing clear information and a stepwise approach to dealing with various clinical situations. There are quite a few books available on pain, but none that specifically target primary care physicians that provide them with practical information to manage their patients."
Review quote

"A pain medicine specialist, an internist, and a nurse practitioner (all
affiliated with Northwestern U. School of Medicine) present this clinical
quick reference for students and practitioners dealing with common pain
conditions, both acute and chronic. The first chapters discuss current
issues in management, assessment, and diagnosis (including for the cognitively
impaired); pharmacological, interventional, and psychological
treatments; rehabilitation issues; and addictive diseases. The remaining
chapters treat topics including pain in the elderly, osteoarthritis, cancer,
AIDS and sickle-cell anemia, the chest, the back and neuropathic pain,
and fibromyalgia. Algorithms and charts guide diagnosis and treatment.
End-of-life and legal and regulatory issues are also addressed."