Current Pain Diagnosis & Treatment by Michael Preodor, Michael E. Preodor (Editor)

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Synopsis

The first truly clinically focused book on the management of the full spectrum of pain syndromes

CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment of Pain represents the first clinical and truly management-oriented book on pain medicine. It covers with equal breadth and depth the management of the full array of both acute and chronic pain conditions. What is especially noteworthy about the approach here is 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 are discussed in detail, and often conveyed through a detailed management algorithm in each chapter. The book's editorial board--including a pain medicine specialist, an internist, and a nurse practitioner--reflects how multi-disciplinary the treatment of pain has become in recent years.

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Reviewer:Tariq M. Malik, MD (University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine)
Description:This concise review provides a quick reference for the evaluation and treatment of patients with chronic pain conditions in primary care settings.
Purpose:The book is intended to provide primary care physicians insight into the field of acute and chronic pain management. Pain management is not taught during residency, but it is an area that residents deal with all of their professional lives. Pain is one of the most common complaints for which people seek medical advice. 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.
Audience:This is a good source of information for any physician who is venturing into any field of medicine or surgery and wants to know more about pain. Complicated pain theories and physiology have been omitted to make this a practical and easy to read book. It deals with common clinical situations as they happen in real life and provides a simple algorithmic approach to evaluate and treat them. The book can be a great resource for internal medicine physicians or residents and, for that matter, students. It is also a good resource for any physicians who commonly deal with chronic pain patients, such as orthopedic, urology, and even obstetrics/gynecology physicians.
Features:The first few chapters are devoted to the evaluation of pain patients, providing an overview of pain pharmacology and brief descriptions of different pain procedures followed by a chapter each onrehabilitation and psychological interventions. Subsequent chapters cover different clinical situations, such as headache, chest pain, back pain, and visceral pain. The book ends with an extremely well written chapter on legal and regulatory issues in pain management that provides useful case scenarios. This chapter alone makes the book worth owning. Because the book is meant for non-pain practitioners, it would be unfair to criticize it for the lack of detail in the discussions of different treatment options or the omission of a few interventions such as intravenous lidocaine or ketamine in neuropathic pain or fibromyalgia. However, I do feel that a chapter on acute pain management in chronic opioid dependent patients is needed as this situation arises often in practice and is very frustrating for the treating physician.
Assessment: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.

Biography

Jamie Von Roenn, MD

Director, Division of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care

Robert H. Lurie Cancer Center

Michael Preodor, MD

Professor of Medicine

Director, Chronic Pain Management

Judy Paice, PhD, RN

Director, Nurse Practitioner’s Unit

Robert H. Lurie Cancer Center

ALL OF: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL