Problem-Based Pain Management

ain management is an essential part of clinical practice for all healthcare providers from trainees, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners through to practicing physicians. Problem-Based Pain Management is a collaboration between experts in anesthesiology, geriatric medicine, neurology, psychiatry and rehabilitation which presents a multidisciplinary management strategy. Over 60 chapters follow a standard, easy-to-read, quick access format on: clinical presentation, signs and symptoms, lab tests, imaging studies, differential diagnosis, pharmacotherapy, non-pharmacologic approach, interventional procedure, follow-up and prognosis. The broad spectrum of topics include headache, neck and back pain, bursitis, phantom limb pain, sickle cell disease and palliative care. Unlike other large, cumbersome texts currently available, this book serves as a quick, concise and pertinent reference in the diagnosis and management of common pain syndromes.

Eric S. Hsu is a clinical professor, Department of Anesthesiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Charles Argoff is a neurologist at Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA.

Katherine E. Galluzzi is Professor and Chair, Department of Geriatrics, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Raphael J. Leo is Associate Professor, State University of New York, Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the Department of Psychiatry, Erie County Medical Center, Buffalo, NY, USA.

Andrew Dubin is Program Director, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, at Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA.