Livro - Principles and Practice of Pain Medicine

In this second edition, the authors and editors provide an extraordinarily comprehensive overview of virtually every aspect of pain medicine. Unlike many other books addressing pain medicine, the editors have been extremely successful in focusing the chapter authors to be comprehensive in their consideration of pain medicine from a multidisciplinary perspective. The book discusses the fundamental dimensions of pain, the multitude of pathophysiologic conditions in which pain poses a major problem, and the methods employed in its management. Additionally, it provides considerable background in the history of pain and its biology, with special emphasis on the principles of the clinical and psychological evaluation of chronic pain.