For more than 30 years, the highly regarded Secrets Series® has provided students and practitioners in all areas of health care with concise, focused, and engaging resources for quick reference and exam review. Pain Management Secrets, 4th Edition, features the Secrets’ popular question-and-answer format that also includes lists, tables, and an easy-to-read style – making reference and review quick, easy, and enjoyable.

• The proven Secrets Series® format gives you the most return for your time – concise, easy to read, engaging, and highly effective.
• Covers the full range of essential topics in pain management for in-training or practicing professionals.
• Top 100 Secrets and Key Points boxes provide a fast overview of the secrets you must know for success in practice and on exams.

• Portable size makes it easy to carry with you for quick reference or review anywhere, anytime.

• • Fully updated throughout, with new chapters on the latest areas in pain medicine, clear illustrations and figures, and a list of current websites that expedite study and review.
  • Written and fully updated by internationally known pain medicine experts, including new editors Drs. Andrew Dubin and Julie Pilitsis.

Contents

۱. General Pain Definitions
۲. Classification of Pain
۳. Basic Mechanisms
۴. History Taking in the Patient With Pain
۵. Physical Examination of the Patient With Pain
۶. Specific Pain Measurement Tools
۷. Behavioral Assessment of Patients With Chronic Pain
۸. Neuroimaging in the Patient With Pain
۹. Chronic Pelvic Pain
۱۰. Urgent Issues in Pain
۱۱. Migraine
۱۲. Cluster Headache
۱۳. Tension-Type Headache
۱۴. The Paroxysmal Hemicranias
۱۵. Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
۱۶. Pain Associated with Brain Tumor
۱۷. Headache Related to Increased or Decreased Intracranial Pressure
۱۸. Headache and Pain Syndromes Associated With Emergent and Chronic Systemic Disease
۱۹. Trigeminal Neuralgia
۲۰. Glossopharyngeal and Other Facial Neuralgias
۲۱. Acute and Chronic Low Back Pain
۲۲. Acute and Chronic Neck and Arm Pain
۲۳. Abdominal Pain
۲۴. Chronic Pelvic Pain
۲۵. Fibromyalgia and Myofascial Pain
۲۶. Postoperative Pain Management
۲۷. Cancer Pain
۲۸. Pain Associated With Rheumatoid Arthritis and Osteoarthritis
۲۹. Neuropathic Pain : Background
۳۰. Neuropathic Pain : Specific Syndromes and Treatment
۳۱. Depression and Anxiety in Chronic Pain
۳۲. Personality Disorders in Chronic Pain
۳۳. Substance Abuse in Chronic Pain
۳۴. Pain in Children
۳۵. Pain in the Older Patient
۳۶. Topical Analgesics
۳۷. Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory Drugs and Acetaminophen
۳۸. Opioid Analgesics
۳۹. The Regulatory Landscape : Opioids
۴۰. Muscle Relaxants, Anticonvulsants as Analgesics; Antidepressants as Analgesics
۴۱. Novel Analgesics for Acute and Chronic Pain
۴۲. Common Nerve Blocks for Headaches and Facial Pain
۴۳. Nerve Blocks : Spine
۴۴. Peripheral Nerve Blocks
۴۵. Intrathecal Therapy
۴۶. Neurostimulation : Brain
۴۷. Spinal Cord Stimulation in Treatment of Pain
۴۸. Neuroablative Procedures
۴۹. Pain Psychology
۵۰. Integrated Approaches to Pain Management
۵۱. Pain Clinics
۵۲. Complementary and Alternative Medicine