Clinical Pain Management: Globalization, Politics and Power - Tapa blanda

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Edited by
Mary E Lynch, MD FRCPC, Professor, Departments Psychiatry, Anesthesiology and Pharmacology, Dalhousie University, Director Pain Management Unit, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Center, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
 
Kenneth D Craig, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Senior Investigator, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
 
Philip WH Peng, MBBS FRCPC, Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesia, University of Toronto; Director, Chronic Pain Program, Department of Anesthesia, University Health Network & Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Improve your patient's quality of life by increasing your knowledge of practical pain control

Pain is the most pervasive and debilitating of all experiences. It can be acute and short lived or develop into a chronic condition that destroys quality of life. But most pain can be managed - and this book will show you how. Based on the International Association for the Study of Pain's core clinical curriculum, and edited and written by leading international experts, Clinical Pain Management presents practical approaches for:

• The assessment of pain
• Pharmacological, interventional, psychological and complimentary management approaches
• Regional and disease-related pain states
• Pain in children, older people, and other special populations

Algorithms and best-practice guidelines ensure all physicians will benefit from the guidance in this concise book as they strive to improve their patient's well-being.

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Pain Management: Expanding the Pharmacological Options
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