cover image - Pain Medicine: Board Review, 1st Edition
ISBN: 9780443105838
Copyright: 2027
Page Count: 350
Imprint: Elsevier
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Pain Medicine: Board Review, 1st Edition

by Blessen C. Eapen, MD and David Cifu, MD

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cover image - Pain Medicine: Board Review, 1st Edition
ISBN: 9780443105838
Copyright: 2027
Page Count: 350
Imprint: Elsevier
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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.
    • 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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  • SECTION 1: General
    1. Anatomy and Physiology: Mechanisms of Nociceptive Transmission
    2. Pharmacology of Pain Transmission and Modulation
    3. 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. Opioids 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. Mental Health Issues in Chronic Pain
    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 and Classification of Chronic Pain Syndromes

    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. 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 Syndromes

    SECTION 10: Special Cases
    39. Pain in Infants, Children, and Adolescents
    40. Pain in Older Adults
    41. Pain With Neurocognitive Dysfunction / Pain in Individuals With Limited Ability to Communicate
    42. Chronic Pain and Addiction
    43. Pain Relief in Areas of Deprivation and Conflict

  • 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 and 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; Principal Investigator, (LIMBIC-CENC), Richmond, Virginia, USA

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