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Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Anaesthetics > Pain & pain management
Characterized by clarity and straddling the line between scope and
depth of information, this concise book provides physicians a
comprehensive overview of pain medicine. Chapters are written by
some of the leading minds in pain medicine and feature case
studies, key points and suggested readings. Multidisciplinary
approaches to the clinical and financial challenges of pain with
the goal of improving patient quality of life are also discussed.
Additionally, the book is in is in tight alignment with the
information that trainees are expected to master for the American
Board of Anesthesiology's pain medicine subspecialty certification,
as outlined by the Joint Council on Anesthesiology Examinations; it
covers the diagnosis of pain states, the management of pain, acute
pain, radicular pain, neuropathic pain, chronic visceral pain,
headaches, and special populations. This book is a must-have for
anyone new to pain medicine or studying for the subspecialty
certification.
Although pain is widely recognized by clinicians and researchers as
an experience, pain is always felt in a patient-specific way rather
than experienced for what it objectively is, making perceived
meaning important in the study of pain. The book contributors
explain why meaning is important in the way that pain is felt and
promote the integration of quantitative and qualitative methods to
study meanings of pain. For the first time in a book, the study of
the meanings of pain is given the attention it deserves. All pain
research and medicine inevitably have to negotiate how pain is
perceived, how meanings of pain can be described within the fabric
of a person's life and neurophysiology, what factors mediate them,
how they interact and change over time, and how the relationship
between patient, researcher, and clinician might be understood in
terms of meaning. Though meanings of pain are not intensively
studied in contemporary pain research or thoroughly described as
part of clinical assessment, no pain researcher or clinician can
avoid asking questions about how pain is perceived or the types of
data and scientific methods relevant in discovering the answers.
In this yearbook for 2016 we present you with some of the latest
research on pain management. We start out with chapters on nausea,
lead and cancer. Then we move into a whole section on pediatric and
adolescent pain. Afterwards a whole section on virtual reality and
rehabilitation and finally we have a whole discussion on cannabis
and its use in modern day medicine. We hope that you as the reader
will find the information of interest and useful.
This book is a practical guide to the diagnosis and management of
pain. Presented in a case-based approach the text begins with an
introduction to pain and its pathophysiology, the next chapter
discusses assessment and diagnosis of pain. The following sections
provide in depth detail on the management of different categories
of pain - acute, cancer-related, and non-cancer chronic pain. The
final chapter covers pain management in specific situations
including dysfunction related to the gastrointestinal tract, renal,
hepatic, respiratory and cardiac systems, and in pregnant and
breast-feeding patients, and geriatric patients. The handbook is
enhanced by clinical images and tables to assist learning. Key
points Practical guide to the diagnosis and management of pain
Presented in a case-based approach with clinical examples Covers
acute, cancer-related and non-cancer chronic pain Includes clinical
images and tables
A virtualist is a doctor who specializes in virtual medicine. She
uses tools like VR headsets, spatial acoustics, haptic feedback,
and even olfactory mimicry to induce reactions in patients' bodies
that help treat a variety of physiological and psychological
conditions, from chronic pain, to compulsive behavior, without the
use of pharmaceuticals or surgical techniques. Virtualists don't
exist yet, but after reading VRx they just might. In recent years,
scientists have established that people's perceptions - their
subjective experiences of the world - influence how their bodies
work. We typically have little control over our perceptions,
particularly when we are sick. But what could we do if we did? In
VRx Brennan Spiegel introduces readers to a new kind of medicine,
called virtual therapeutics, answering exactly this question, using
technology that is already available. It works through two basic
but powerful psychological concepts: embodied cognition, the idea
that thought processes involve the whole body, not just the brain;
and presence, the ability of virtual reality to trick your body
into thinking it's somewhere that it isn't, or can do something
that it can't usually do. VRx takes readers on a mindbending
journey through the ways in which these deep connections between
our minds and our bodies are being put to good use. We learn about
the woman who endures an exceptionally painful labor by completing
breathing exercises on a digital beach, the schizophrenic patient
who literally confronts the demon inside his head, the burn victims
who are able to manage their pain better after traversing snowy
virtual landscapes, and the doctor who confronted his own fear of
mortality by watching himself die. Brimming with extraordinary
stories of the power of virtual therapeutics to treat both physical
and psychological conditions, VRx offers nothing short of a
completely new way of healing.
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