Pain

Zusatztext The book is intended for a busy general practitioner who does not have time to study the pain textbooks. It is easy to read and the examples are good for the patient as they stimulate the interest to study further the pain status, diagnosis and treatment. Informationen zum Autor Tabitha A. Washington, MD, MSAssociate Pain Fellowship Program Director, Pain MedicineDepartment of AnesthesiologyDartmouth Hitchcock Medical CenterAssistant Professor of AnesthesiologyDartmouth Medical SchoolLebanon, NHKhalilah M. Brown, MD, MPHFellow Pain MedicineDepartment of AnesthesiologyDartmouth Hitchcock Medical CenterLebanon, NHGilbert J. Fanciullo, MD, MSDirector, Section of Pain MedicineDepartment of AnesthesiologyDartmouth Hitchcock Medical CenterProfessor of AnesthesiologyDartmouth Medical SchoolLebanon, NH Klappentext Patients with pain disorders pose many clinical challenges for the attending physician. Even experienced clinicians occasionally arrive at the point where diagnostic, work-up, treatment, or prognostic thinking becomes blocked. Pain teaches the reader to recognize and appropriately treat a variety of pain disorders using a case study format. Divided into three section, chronic pain conditions, chronic pain and related disorders, and treatment overview, and derived from consultation requests from providers in medical practice, the cases are written in a format that encourages the reader to formulate a differential diagnosis and treatment plan for a variety of pain problems. Succinct in its presentation and logical in its layout, Pain is the perfect resource for the busy practitioner on the go. Zusammenfassung Patients with pain disorders pose many clinical challenges for the attending physician. Even experienced clinicians occasionally arrive at the point where diagnostic, work-up, treatment, or prognostic thinking becomes blocked. Pain teaches the reader to recognize and appropriately treat a variety of pain disorders using a case study format. Divided into three section, chronic pain conditions, chronic pain and related disorders, and treatment overview, and derived from consultation requests from providers in medical practice, the cases are written in a format that encourages the reader to formulate a differential diagnosis and treatment plan for a variety of pain problems. Succinct in its presentation and logical in its layout, Pain is the perfect resource for the busy practitioner on the go. Inhaltsverzeichnis SECTION I CHRONIC PAIN CONDITIONS 1. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome 2. Peripheral Neuropathy 3. Post-Herpetic Neuralgia 4. Post-Stroke Central Pain 5. Multiple Sclerosis Related Pain 6. Radiculopathy 7. Brachial Plexus Injury 8. Superficial Radial Nerve Injury 9. Post-Thoracotomy Pain Syndrome (Acute and Chronic Pain) 10. Dental Pain 11. Trigeminal Neuralgia and Atypical Facial Pain 12. Phantom Pain 13. Spinal Cord Injury Pain 14. Ramsey Hunt Syndrome (Geniculate Neuralgia) 15. Supraorbital Neuralgia 16. Glossopharngeal Neuralgia 17. Arachnoiditis 18. Occipital Neuralgia 19. Cancer-Related Pain 20. Mononeuropathy SECTION II CHRONIC PAIN AND RELATED DISORDERS 21. Chronic Pain and Depression 22. Chronic Pain and Addictive Disorder 23. Chronic Pain and Other Psychiatric Disorders 24. The Difficult Chronic Pain Patient SECTION III TREATMENT OVERVIEW 25. Antidepressants 26. Anticonvulsants 27. Opioids 28. Other Adjuvant Drugs 29. Spinal Cord and Peripheral Nerve Stimulation 30. Neurosurgical Procedures for Pain 31. Medical Cannabis ...

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Tabitha A. Washington, MD, MS Associate Pain Fellowship Program Director, Pain Medicine Department of Anesthesiology Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology Dartmouth Medical School Lebanon, NH Khalilah M. Brown, MD, MPH Fellow Pain Medicine Department of Anesthesiology Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Lebanon, NH Gilbert J. Fanciullo, MD, MS Director, Section of Pain Medicine Department of Anesthesiology Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Professor of Anesthesiology Dartmouth Medical School Lebanon, NH

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Patients with pain disorders pose many clinical challenges for the attending physician. Even experienced clinicians occasionally arrive at the point where diagnostic, work-up, treatment, or prognostic thinking becomes blocked.
Pain teaches the reader to recognize and appropriately treat a variety of pain disorders using a case study format. Divided into three section, chronic pain conditions, chronic pain and related disorders, and treatment overview, and derived from consultation requests from providers in medical practice, the cases are written in a format that encourages the reader to formulate a differential diagnosis and treatment plan for a variety of pain problems. Succinct in its presentation and logical in its layout, Pain is the perfect resource for the busy practitioner on the go.

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• SECTION I CHRONIC PAIN CONDITIONS

• 1. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
• 2. Peripheral Neuropathy
• 3. Post-Herpetic Neuralgia
• 4. Post-Stroke Central Pain
• 5. Multiple Sclerosis Related Pain
• 6. Radiculopathy
• 7. Brachial Plexus Injury
• 8. Superficial Radial Nerve Injury
• 9. Post-Thoracotomy Pain Syndrome (Acute and Chronic Pain)
• 10. Dental Pain
• 11. Trigeminal Neuralgia and Atypical Facial Pain
• 12. Phantom Pain
• 13. Spinal Cord Injury Pain
• 14. Ramsey Hunt Syndrome (Geniculate Neuralgia)
• 15. Supraorbital Neuralgia
• 16. Glossopharngeal Neuralgia
• 17. Arachnoiditis
• 18. Occipital Neuralgia
• 19. Cancer-Related Pain
• 20. Mononeuropathy

• SECTION II CHRONIC PAIN AND RELATED DISORDERS

• 21. Chronic Pain and Depression
• 22. Chronic Pain and Addictive Disorder
• 23. Chronic Pain and Other Psychiatric Disorders
• 24. The Difficult Chronic Pain Patient

• SECTION III TREATMENT OVERVIEW

• 25. Antidepressants
• 26. Anticonvulsants
• 27. Opioids
• 28. Other Adjuvant Drugs
• 29. Spinal Cord and Peripheral Nerve Stimulation
• 30. Neurosurgical Procedures for Pain
• 31. Medical Cannabis