Long-term pain : A guide to practical management

ISBN-13: 9780199214150 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 100 str.

John Lee; Andrew Baranowski

Opis

Designed for primary care clinicians this book is about patients who suffer with long term pain. Written in a distinct, friendly style, it analyses ideas about pain from the simple to the complex and provides up-to-date and relevant information written by doctors whose practice is either wholly or substantially related to people with pain. It provides examples of everyday patients to provide clinicians with the confidence to prescribe and treat patients with more difficult pain. In an attempt to 'demystify' some areas of pain medicine it also includes details of the science behind common conditions and their remedies in order to emphasize the psychological and social impacts of pain.

Recenzje

This is an extremely useful book for primary care physicians and general surgeons. Although very concise, the book successfully conveys the all-important principles of treating chronic pain patients, namely, using a comprehensive approach, and good communication among members of the medical team managing a patient.

O autorze

John Lee is an honorary Senior Lecturer and Lead Clinician of the Pain Management Centre, at University College London Hospitals and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery at Queen Square. He has also worked extensively with the Commission for Healthcare Improvement (CHI) and the Healthcare Commission. Andrew Baranowski is Head of Non-Acute Pain Research at University College London Hospitals and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery at Queen Square. His specialist interests lie in complex spinal pain, neuropathic pain and uro-genital pain. He is a regional advisor for Pain Medicine, The Royal College of Anaesthetists and has organised postgraduate training courses at the Royal Society of Medicine for many years. He currently sits on the Chronic Pelvic Pain guidelines committee of the European Association of Urology.