Pain Medicine,
Edition 1 Board ReviewEditors: Edited by Blessen C. Eapen, MD and David Cifu, MD
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Description
Edited and written by seasoned authors and physicians in pain medicine and physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R), this unique review tool is ideal for medical students, PM&R residents, pain fellows, and pain practitioners studying or working in the field and preparing to take the pain medicine exam. Series editors Drs. Blessen C. Eapen and David X. Cifu ensure that Pain Medicine: Board Review offers focused, high-yield content specific to physiatrists who seek subspecialty certification or to improve clinical care and assessment in practice, with authoritative, up-to-date coverage of pain assessment and psychology; methods of treatment; tissue pain, visceral pain, headache and facial pain, and nerve damage; pain management in special populations; and more.Key Features
- Supports self-assessment and review with approximately 200 board-style questions and explanations
- Includes questions on patient management, including patient evaluation and diagnosis, prognosis/risk factors, and applied science
- Discusses key topics such as sex and gender issues in pain; opioids, antidepressants and anticonvulsants; interventional pain management; pain in pregnancy and labor; neuropathic pain; pain relief in persons with substance use and addictive disorders: and others
- Ensures efficient, effective review with content written by experts in physical medicine and rehabilitation, neurology, and psychiatry, and a format that mirrors the board exam outline
- Contains references to primary literature that support the answers provided
- An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date
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About the author
Edited by Blessen C. Eapen, MD, Chief, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R), VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System; Health Sciences Associate Clinical Professor, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA; David Cifu, MD, Associate Dean of Innovation and System Integration and Eminent Scholar; Herman J. Flax, MD Professor and Chair, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; Senior Consultant, Sheltering Arms Institute, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine; Senior TBI Specialist, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Researcher, Central Virginia Veteran’s Healthcare System and Principal Investigator, (LIMBIC-CENC), Richmond, Virginia, USA
Section 1: General
1 Anatomy and Physiology: Mechanisms of Nociceptive Transmission
2 Pharmacology of Pain Transmission and Modulation
3 Embryologic Development of Pain Systems
4 Designing, Reporting, and Interpreting Clinical Research Studies About Treatments for Pain: Evidence-Based Medicine
5 Public Health Aspects of Pain Medicine and Legal/Regulatory Environment
6 Ethical Standards in Pain Management and Research
Section 2: Assessment and Psychology of Pain
7 Clinical Evaluation of Pain
8 Placebo and Pain
9 Clinical Nerve Function Studies and Imaging
10 Psychosocial and Cultural Aspects of Pain
11 Sex and Gender Issues in Pain
Section 3: Treatment of Pain – Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics, Adverse Effects, Drug Interactions, and Indications/Contraindications
12 Opioid Pharmacology
13 Antipyretic Analgesics: Nonsteroidals, Acetaminophen, and Phenazone Derivatives
14 Antidepressants and Anticonvulsants
15 Miscellaneous Agents: Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics, Adverse Effects, Drug Interactions, Indications/Contraindications
Section 4: Treatment of Pain – Other Methods
16 Psychological Treatments: Cognitive Behavioral and Behavioral Interventions
17 Psychiatric Treatment
18 Stimulation-Produced Analgesia
19 Interventional Pain Management Including Nerve Blocks and Lesioning
20 Surgical Pain Management
21 Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Modalities and Treatment
22 Work Rehabilitation and Management of Return to Work
23 Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Section 5: Clinical States – Taxonomy
24 Taxonomy of Pain Systems
Section 6: Tissue Pain
25 Acute Pain
26 Cervical Radicular Pain
27 Neck Pain
28 Lumbar Radicular Pain
29 Low Back Pain
30 Musculoskeletal Pain
31 Muscle and Myofascial Pain
Section 7: Visceral Pain
32 Visceral Pain Anatomy and Pain Modulation
33 Visceral Pain—Classification and Management
34 Pain in Pregnancy and Peripartum
Section 8: Headache and Facial Pain
35 Headache
36 Orofacial Pain: Anatomy, Diagnosis, and Management
Section 9: Nerve Damage
37 Neuropathic Pain
38 Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
Section 10: Special Cases
39 Pain in Infants, Children, and Adolescents
40 Pain in Older Adults
41 Pain Issues in Individuals with Limited Ability to Communicate Due to Neurocognitive Impairments
42 Chronic Pain and Addiction
43 Pain Relief in Areas of Deprivation and Conflict