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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616
EAN num: 9781903734872
ISBN number: 1903734878
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Page Count: 116
Printing Date: 2006-11
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Chronic pain has a broad range of physical and psychological pathologies, and it is through persistent pain that many of the greatest health burdens worldwide - cancer, HIV/AIDS, diabetes, arthritis, alcoholism and trauma - exact their long-term human, social and economic toll. Patients expect the best possible quality of life, and a multidisciplinary team approach may be required, combining the skills of a variety of healthcare professionals who can contribute to diagnosis or treatment. 'Fast Facts: Chronic Pain' summarizes the key facts about chronic pain for busy front-line practitioners, starting with chapters on the mechanisms and assessment of pain. Subsequent chapters detail the pathogenesis, diagnosis and management of specific chronic pain syndromes, including cancer pain, chronic low back pain and visceral pain. A chapter on neuropathic pain includes discusion of trigeminal and postherpetic neuralgia, complex regional pain syndrome, diabetic neuropathy, central pain, phantom pain and post-incisional pain, while a chapter on pain of musculoskeletal origin explores pain arising from fibromyalgia, osteoporosis and arthritis.
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Despite everything I say here, this is a great little book and very evidence focused. Missing chapters that would be useful include chronic headache, FEMALE chronic pelvic pain (male is included, go figure).
The authors offer little information on the use of cannabis, perhaps because the book went to press in 2006 and several RCTs have be published since giving us a better understanding of is risks and benefits. As a palliative care provider, I would appreciate some information on this topic.
I was interested that the authors statement there is no clearly superior fractionation schedule for palliative radiation therapy in cancer pain. Faced with similar outcomes between single and multi-faction therapy near end-of-life when burdens of care are so crucial, single fraction therapy is a very logical choice, though often discounted by radiation oncologists. We need clear statements by experts that single fraction therapy near EOL is preferable.
In all though, this book is a very good buy and primary care providers should keep it handy!
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