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Essentials of Pain Medicine and Regional Anesthesia | Honorio T. Benzon, Srinivasa N. Raja, ... | Excellent Reference for Pain Boards Review

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	Essentials of Pain Medicine and Regional Anesthesia Honorio T. Benzon, Srinivasa N. Raja, ... Churchill Livingstone, 2004 - 752 pages average customer review:based on 5 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

This second edition of Essentials of Pain Management and Regional Anesthesia, offers an accessible and concise, yet complete, overview of today's theory and practice of pain medicine and regional anesthesia. From a review of basic considerations through local anesthetics and nerve block techniques, this book provides the reader with an excellent tool for exam review or practice of Pain Management.

Organized in a concise, practical quick-reference format.
All chapters are brief and easy to read quickly.
Offers specific strategies for the evaluation and management of a full range of pain syndromes, including cancer pain.
Features over 230 diagrams, illustrations, summary charts and tables that clarify the information and make it easy to apply.
Discusses the latest drugs and therapeutic approaches, such as acupuncture.
Presents the management of pain for every setting where it is practiced, including the emergency room, the critical care unit, and the pain clinic.

Includes new topics such as: imaging in pain medicine, radiation safety, issues associated with the use of narcotics, intraarticular and intraperitoneal use of opioids, pain management in the emergency room and in the intensive care unit, pain management issues during pregnancy, geriatric pain, and hospice care and end-of-life issues.
New chapters on interventional procedures include discography, intradiscal electrothermal coagulation (IDET), vertebroplasty, and piriformis injections. Truncal blocks and neuraxial blocks and anticoagulants are added to the section on nerve blocks.

With 89 additional contributing experts.

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Esentials of Pain Medicine

It is concise and very informative!! Very easy to use and read.

Excellent Reference for Pain Boards Review

My specialty is PM&R. I used this book to prepare for my ABPM Board Examination. I used it to complement a Pain Boards Review Course (designed mostly for anesthesiologists) that I took 6 months prior to the exam. I found myself being able to read about 75% of this book almost without noticing. It is concise, clear, and has most of the information required for the Pain Board exam I took. Great images and fairly comprehensive. I was able to review and understand topics covered in the Board Review course that were not very familiar to me. This is a good buy, for Board Exam reviews, and as a reference! I felt comfortable with the exam and I PASSED!

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Outstanding

I am a pain medicine fellow. This book is very concise and very useful. Far better than Raj's review book. WIthout a doubt the best book out there at the moment for the pain boards.

Great Resource

I am a doctoral student completing my PhD in Health Psychology and this book was recommended by a friend who is an MD and pain specialist. It truly is everything you always wanted to know about pain but did not know enough to ask. I just completed my term in Biopsychology and it was an excellent resouse in addition to my required textbooks. I know I will use this book for many years to come as I complete my degee and beyond. I consider it an essential part of my professional library.

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Good reference book for pain medicine