Practical Management of Pain

by Honorio T. Benzon, James P. Rathmell, Christopher L. Wu

For more than 30 years, Practical Management of Pain has offered expert guidance to both clinicians and trainees, covering every aspect of acute and chronic pain medicine for adult and pediatric patients . The fully revised 6th Edition brings you fully up to date with new developments in patient evaluation, diagnosis of pain syndromes, rationales for management, treatment modalities, and much more. Edited by a team of renowned pain clinicians led by Dr. Honorio Benzon, this authoritative reference is a comprehensive, practical resource for pain diagnosis and treatment using a variety of pharmacologic and physical modalities.

6586 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1992

Reviews

[The DO]

If roughly half of our patients are or will be women, it’s a fair bet that all of our patients will present with pain at some point in their care. And perhaps never before has the management of pain been under such intense scrutiny. In many cases we can diagnose and ameliorate pain successfully – but not always. Then we are left with a more daunting task – managing it.

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