Acute and chronic pain place a huge burden on our society. Approximately 10% of the population in Western countries report suffering from chronic pain, and both chronic and acute pain are responsible for high absenteeism in the workplace. It is therefore crucial that we have effective ways of treating pain. Unfortunately though, we have no objective measures of pain - no blood tests, no urine dipsticks. We have to rely on what the patient tells us. So how then do we know what are and what are not effective pain treatments? It is here that the principles of evidence-based medicine have been of great value - helping us to understand the most effective forms of pain treatment. Bandolier's Little Book of Pain is a unique portable guide to evidence-based pain treatments. For each possible treatment, the book provides the evidence supporting the efficacy of the treatment, along with a clinical bottom line, for those requiring immediate information. Written by world leaders in the field of evidenced-based pain treatments, the book will be indispensable for the multi-disciplinary professionals managing acute and chronic pain in primary and secondary care, including GPs, nurses, and pharmacists.

Product Description: Pocket Pain Medicine is an invaluable tool for every resident and practicing physician who needs to understand the essentials of acute and chronic pain management, including all current guidelines and standards of care. This concise, up-to-date, evidence-based reference guide is written in the popular Pocket Notebook Series format that is ideal for today's fast-paced health care environment...read more

Product Description: In the United States about 50 million people sufer from recurrent or chronic pain, and nearly 10% of adults take medication for pain daily. Further, the disease burden of pain is expected to grow, relative to other illnesses and conditions...read more

Product Description: This brand-new title in the Mobile Medicine series equips you with the advanced techniques and the practical guidance you need to successfully manage a full range of pain management and procedural sedations problems. Coverage of emergency and non-emergency settings, pediatric considerations, basic pharmacology, end of life issues, and more prepare you to successfully handle any situation you may encounter...read more

Product Description: This new addition to The 5-Minute Consult Series is a clinically oriented quick-consult reference for pain management. More than 150 conditions associated with pain and concomitant mental health diagnoses are thoroughly and concisely presented in the famous fast-access 5-Minute Consult format...read more

Product Description: This one-of-a-kind, pocket-sized reference provides instant access to a wide range of key information on managing commonly encountered musculoskeletal conditions, including diagnostic criteria, treatment goals, management guidelines and protocols, nutritional management protocols, home care protocols, referral protocols, and more...read more

Product Description: This guide provides an overview of the psychiatrist in the assessment and treatment of various pain states. The text reviews: the basics of pain mechanisms and physiology; the psychiatric differential diagnosis of pain states; and the psychiatric comorbidities of pain and treatment approaches...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Designed for maximum clinical utility, this volume shows how to tailor psychological treatment programs to patients suffering from a wide range of pain problems. Conceptual and diagnostic issues are discussed, widely used clinical models reviewed, and a framework presented for integrating psychological treatment with medical and surgical interventions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Uses the "pain clinic" approach and is geared specifically to the non-pain specialist...includes differential diagnosis and treatment options for various anatomical sites of common pain.

Product Description: The Second 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 completely revised new edition is even more user-friendly and clinical than its predecessor...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Discover the most powerful and cost-effective tool you can use to educate patients on managing pain! This outstanding collection of patient education and reference material supplies more thank 80 clear, easy-to-follow patient handouts with specific guidelines on the most commonly needed pain management topics including: ? Understanding Pain ? Assessment of Pain ? Acute Pain ? Cancer Pain ? Chronic Pain ? Pain in Infants, Children, and Adolescents ? Pain in the Elderly Housed in a convenient, loose-leaf binder and organized by easy-access tabs, you?ll find guidelines instructions, checklists, exercises and other tools to facilitate teaching for the average reader, the Spanish-speaking reader, as well as the low-literacy reader...read more

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Product Description: The RCA has issued guidelines to formalize training for anesthetic trainees. At the basic stage of their training all will be trained in managing mainly acute pain relief, and during higher level training the emphasis will be on chronic pain relief...read more