The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Pain Management Jane C. Ballantyne, 6

The Third 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 edition has new chapters on chronic back pain, pain control in children with chronic and terminal disease, and diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, plus new illustrations of procedures and techniques. All chapters include the latest evidence-based information and coverage of fibromyalgia, psychosomatic complaints, headaches, and opioid cautions has been expanded. Tables and chapter-opening outlines enable readers to find information quickly. A drug appendix and seven other practical appendices are included. (http://www.anesthesialibrary.com) Subscribe to Lippincott's Interactive Anesthesia Library and get online access to the fully searchable content of eight critically acclaimed references in anesthesiology, critical care, and pain management. Neurophysiological basis of pain / Gary J. Brenner Pain mechanisms and their importance in clinical practice and research / Isabelle Decosterd and Clifford J. Woolf The placebo effect / Eija Kalso The history and clinical examination / Jan Slezak and Asteghik Hacobian Diagnostic imaging and pain management / Onassis A. Caneris Assessment of pain / Alyssa LeBel Neurophysiologic testing in pain management / Annabel D. Edwards and Lisa S. Krivickas Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs / Jane Ballantyne and Steven Barna Opioids / Jeffrey Uppington Adjuvant treatments / Karla Hayes Psychopharmacology for the pain specialist / Daniel Rockers and Karla Hayes Diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in pain management / Milan P. Stojanovic Neuromodulation techniques for the treatment of pain / Milan Stojanovic Neurosurgical pain management / Ramin Amirnovin, G. Rees Cosgrove, and Emad Eskandar Psychological assessment and behavioral treatment of chronic pain / Ronald J. Kulich and Lainie Andrew Physical therapy / Teresa Michel and Harriet Wittink Physiatric treatment of pain / Joseph Audette and Allison Bailey Acupuncture / Jasmin M. Field, Lucy Chen, and May C.M. Pian-Smith Chronic pain rehabilitation / Elizabeth Loder and Pat McAlary Radiotherapy and radiopharmaceuticals for cancer pain / Thomas F. DeLaney Postoperative pain in adults / Jane Ballantyne and Elizabeth Ryder Postoperative pain in children / Lucy Chen and Jane C. Ballantyne Pain in burn patients / Salahadin Abdi and Bucknam J McPeek Pain management in sickle cell disease / Jatinder Gill Neuropathic pain syndromes / Dennis Dey and Anne Louise Oaklander Complex regional pain syndrome / E. Daniela Hord Low back pain / James P. Rathmell ... [et al.] Headache / F. Michael Cutrer and David F. Black Orofacial pain / Alexandre F.M. DeSilva and Martin A. Acquadro Opioids in chronic non-terminal pain / Jane Ballantyne Pain in HIV and AIDS / S. Jane Marshall, Sarah Cox, and Andrew S.C. Rice Pain in adults with cancer / E. Daniela Hord, Jeffrey Norton, and Annabel Edwards Control of pain in children with chronic and terminal disease / Alyssa A. LeBel Palliative medicine / Constance Dahlin, Andrew T. Putnam, and J. Andrew Billings Chronic opioid therapy, drug abuse and addiction / Barth Wilsey and Scott Fishman Pain and affective disorders / Dan Rockers and Scott M. Fishman Emergencies in the pain clinic / Asteghik Hacobian and Milan Stojanovic Drug appendix / Del Black and Gary Brenner.