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Get the core knowledge in pain medicine you need from one of the most trusted resources in the field. The new fourth edition guides you through every aspect of pain medicine with concise descriptions of evaluation, diagnosis of pain syndromes, rationales for management, treatment modalities, and much more. From commonly seen pain syndromes, including headaches, trunk pain, orofacial pain, back pain, and extremity pain.through specific pain management challenges such as postoperative pain, pain due to cancer, phantom pain, and pain in the management of AIDS patients.this popular text will equip you with the know-how you need to effectively manage even your most challenging cases.

• A practical, multidisciplinary approach to pain management makes key concepts and techniques easier to apply to everyday practice.
  
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• Detailed discussions of the latest concepts and treatment plans help you provide the best possible outcomes for all your patients.

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Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX. Provides the required theoretical knowledge base for achieving a successful professional career in pain medicine and for preparing the physician trainee for certification in pain medicine. Revised and updated, this edition also covers pain management in outer space. Previous edition: c1992. DNLM: Pain--therapy. ... Read more

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Good Book!
"Comprehensive' and "Practical" are the proper words to describe this book.

In contrast to other pain medicine text books, it starts with "General Considerations" in Part I which provides very important and hard to find information such as "Organization of Inpatient Pain Service", "Organization of Pain Services for Chronic and Cancer Pain', "Organization of Pain Management Services in Children" which are instrumental for any pain practices in learning and following appropriate guidelines in establishing and providing such services.

In Part II, the "Basic Consideration" touches on Pain Pathways & Mechanisms, Anatomy and Physiology, Neurochemistry in a rather focused way.Two short Chapters with one on "Pharmacological Management of Pain", one on "Biopsychosocial Evaluation & Treatment of Chronic Pain" are refreshing and informative.

In Part III, the "Clinical Consideration", provides Chapters on "Acute Pain Syndromes", "Pain During Pregnancy", "Phantom Pain", "Visceral Pain", "Cancer Pain", "Pain in Selected Neurological Disorders", "Geriatric Pain", "Pain in Children". I find these chapters helpful in setting up guidelines for the management of acute pain, cancer pain, pediatric pain and pain in pregnant women. E.g, I had tough time during my Pain Management Fellowship training in finding the topic of "pain management in pregnancy" from other pain management text books. The discussion on post op pain management is quite thorough which helped me quite a bit during my Pain Fellowship Acute Pain Service.

In Part IV, the section of "Evaluation & Investigation" includes chapters on taking history, performing basic exams including focused neurological and musculoskletal exams which are practical and useful. However, the "Radiology" chapter needs more spine images since spinal pain from neck to low back is what we see most from chronic pain population. I was surprised to find that it does not have a cervical MRI in this chapter. The chapter on `Differential Neural Blockade" is informative, although the clinical utility of these blocks in clinical practice is questionable.

Part V consists of three sections, A, B, C respectively.

Section A includes chapters on "Pharmacological Techniques", "Pharmacokinetics of Analgesics" and "Neuropsychiatric Drug use in Pain Management" which are well written. Among them, the discussion on opioid analgesics is very useful in clinical practice, especially in the settings of management of acute pain, based on my own personal experience.

Section B contains chapters on procedural approaches of commonly performed interventional procedures including from head to toe peripheral nerve blocks, epidural nerve blocks and sympathetic nerve blocks. Additionally, it has a chapter on "Organization of Nerve Block Facility" that contains instrumental information on personnel, equipment, supplies, documentations, which is extremely useful for newly established pain clinic that plans to provide interventional services.

Section C, the "Special Techniques" that covers varieties of individual interventional arena such as "Epidural Steroid Injection", "Facet Sydromes and Block", "Spinal Opioid for Acute Pain", "Cryoneurolysis & Radiofrequency Lesioning", "Spinal Cord Stimulation" , "Implanted Drug Delivery Systems" , "Surgical Techniques in Pain Management", "Alternative Pain Medicine" and even "Acupuncture", etc. The chapter on "Spinal Opioid for Acute Pain" helped me tremendously during my Fellowship training while on Acute Pain Services at Univ. of Michigan Health System, managing patients on patient-controlled epidural opioid infusion for post-op pain control. Some of the chapters, e.g.,the "Epidural Steroid Injection" can be significantly improved with inclusion of more fluoroscopic picture demonstrating anatomic locations of needle placement, contrast spread pattern, etc. The Chapter on "Radiofrequency Lesioning" needs more illustration with pictures showing needle placement as one can not learn these procedures from reading procedural descriptions. Good quality fluoroscopic pictures work way better than words.

Part VI through Part VIII summarizes outcomes, efficacy and complications of pain management in acute pain, chronic pain, neuropathic pain and cancer pain. It also includes discussion of pain management in emergency room, home care and palliative medicine. Finally, it ends with discussion of pain management of future.

In summary, this is a comprehensive, practical text book of pain management. It is an excellent resource for physicians to gain insight into areas pertinent to pain management practice,such as how to set up pain clinic, how to organize acute pain service, how to organize a procedural facility, etc. I personally benefited from reading it in preparing my Board Examination in the American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians(Part II)(Fellow, Interventional Pain Practice, World Institute of Pain).

A must for the pain specialist
This book is in its third edition. The book is keeping up with the rapidlychanging specialty of the Practice of Pain. The current edition has beenexpanded and extensively revised. The approach is "practical". Amust for the practicing Pain Specialist and helpful for the pain patient tounderstand the diagnostic and therapeutic procedures which are wellillustrated.

A good first text on Pain Management...
This is a very good textbook on invasive pain management techniques, and their utility in clinical practice. The book reads well, is reasonably well illustrated, and includes tables of studies of techniques and their success rates. Additional discussion of the non-invasive medical andphysiotherapeutic techniques of pain control for specific disorders areincluded.The book is multi-authored, with sections by Dr. P. Prithvi Raj,a noted expert in the field. This was the first textbook of Pain ManagementI purchased for myown clinical practice and it served me well. A newedition is due for 1999.I also would recommend the superb andscholarly Monograph, "Current Review ofPain" edited by the sameauthor. This latter series summarizes the latest developments in the basicsciences and the clinical sciences in Pain Management, is very wellillustrated, and the author has gone to the trouble of including anannotated bibliography of the voluminous medical and scientific literatureon Pain, enabling the researcher and practitioner to select those articlesfrom Medline most useful to his or her research and/or clinical endeavors. ... Read more

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"Human Anatomy" by Van De Graaff is designed for the one-semester human anatomy course. The new edition contains thoroughly updated coverage throughout the entire text and an enhanced illustration programme. New content includes coverage of the Human Genome Project, RNA and protein synthesis and new discussion of the classification of joints. Over 50 new Cadaver photos have been added to the 6th edition to help illustrate complexity of structural relationships in the body. There is more clinical coverage, including 21 new case scenarios. The clinical practicum feature has been expanded And every body system now has at least 2 clinical practicum boxes. ... Read more

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I purchased this book for my anatomy class. I was excited to find this book for $10 brand new when the school bookstore wanted $175 for it USED. Great deal. It came shrink-wrapped and everything! Definately will recommend this seller!

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the book was as described, that is, new and in wrapper. the atlas is very useful in my human morph class, easy to use for "at a glance" type studying. only one problem, the cd that came with it was useless, because the ink from the pamphlet inside the cd case had embedded itself into the cd...

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great for beginners
This book is very easy to understand.It is laid out a little differently than the Marieb, Martini and Tortora books.I find it easier to understand though.The extra tidbits in the book are really interesting as well.The book has answered things I have often wondered about but, never asked anyone.If you are new to A&P this book will really help you out without overwhelming you and confusing you.Thank you Dr Van de Graaff

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Christopher Milne was the world-famous son of A. A. Milne. This collection brings together passages from the four volumes of C. R. Milne's memoirs. Covering his much-publicized childhood, his war experiences, marriage, and proprietorship of a bookshop, this book presents an intriguing portrait of a gifted man. He chose to live simply--a choice that ultimately brought a happiness that could never come from the empty fame of being the real Christopher Robin. ... Read more

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very dry
This was a tough book to read. My father, aunt, and I are all avid readers and fans of Milne and all things Pooh. But this book was very dry and agonizingly slow. Interesting in bits and pieces, but none of us could finish the book. In my family that is a rarity for any book. It is really about the life of the son of the original author of the Pooh books. You do get a usual sense of the frustration of those who have famous parents here. The bset thing about the book was the 6 pictures in the book. They feature the original pooh toys, the real pooh sticks bridge, and the real hollow tree in England that A.A. Milne used in his stories. I was really looking forward to more.

Why not combine all three volumes without editing?
I'm going to give this one four stars sight-unseen. I have all three of the original volumes, and think they would be splendid combined into a single volume. One could wish the parts left out would be more from the last two volumes, as admittedly more people would be interested in the background of the Pooh Books as such than in Christopher Milne's own life. Since I know this likely is not the case, I will give this volume four stars. Had all three of the original volumes been combined without editing, I would have given it five stars.

You see, not everyone is concerned merely with either the Pooh Books or the boy who inspired the character Christopher Robin. I should know. Christopher Robin was not merely a character I enjoyed; he was my childhood alter ego, to a degree many of my readers may find hard to imagine. And yet, I knew there was a real boy behind the story, that he and I were much alike on many fundamental levels, and that I would be much interested in learning more about him. When I bought Christopher Milne's original volumes, I was happily flabbergasted to see how dead-on my intuition about him had been. Both as children and as adults, we indeed had much in common, and quite likely would have been good friends had we grown up in the same time and place.

I am far from being the pantheistic humanist that Christopher Milne became, or that A.A. Milne was before him. He says, candidly, that he never met the Christian God he heard about in church. But had I not become a Christian, I too would have become a pantheistic humanist, and for very similar reasons. I can sympathize with his viewpoint, even if I believe I can refute it. All in all, I found the original trilogy enjoyable and even challenging reading, and I'm sure I'd find the "condensed version" so as well. (Now if only someone could show me Lesley Milne's introduction to this volume...)

Tedious and abrupt
I thought I'd enjoy this one, but I ended up regretting that I'd bought this edition of all three of Christopher Milne's memoirs, and not just the first book on its own. Obviously it would have been impossible to fit allthree books into one volume, so the original books have been drasticallyabridged. But this has resulted in a rushed precis of Milne's life, ratherthan an enjoyable autobiography.

The first book was interesting; so muchso that I was quite annoyed that so much of it had been edited out.Obviously, the first book, in which Milne tells us what it was like to bethe real Christopher Robin, was always going to be the most appealing;everyone wants to know about where Pooh really came from and what he andC.R. really got up to in the Hundred Acre Wood.

But as "Beyond the worldof Pooh" progressed it got more and more aimless and uninteresting. OnceMilne has told us (in barely more than a few paragraphs in this edition) ofhis wartime exploits, and then how he went on to open his bookshop, there'snot much more to tell. He appears to promise to tell us about hisrelationship with his handicapped daughter, but never delivers; a missedopportunity to bring some life into the story. Nothing much happens, andthe book stagnates.

Of course, it was Milne's right, after a lifetime ofbeing branded with the "Christopher Robin is saying his prayers" image ofhim created by the media, to retire to a quiet and uneventful life.

Butdid he have to write a book about it? ... Read more

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