Cancer Pain Management - A Comprehensive Approach

Klappentext Cancer related pain can successfully managed in the majority of patients by the use of medication. Some patients! however! have pain that does not respond to opiods! and require more specialized pain management techniques. Examples of such treatments are nerve blocks! radiotherapy! acupuncture and physiotherapy. This is the first book to provide detailed information on all of the alternative methods of pain management. The editors are experienced researchers researchers who have brought together an international team of pain specialists! palliative medicine doctors and oncologists to provide a practical! comprehensive guide to non-drug management of cancer pain. Zusammenfassung Taking a practical approach, this book includes most non-drug methods of pain control, covering alternatives to oral and parenteral analgesics for patients with difficult cancer pain. It provides a collection of chapters by international experts, bringing together differents aspects of pain management.

Product details

• Authors: Karen H. Simpson, Karen H. Budd Simpson
• Assisted by: Keith Budd (Editor), Budd Keith (Editor), Karen Simpson (Editor), Karen H. Simpson (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2001
• EAN: 9780192628770
• ISBN: 978-0-19-262877-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Pain & pain management, Oncology, Pain and pain management, Palliative Medicine, MEDICAL / Oncology / General, MEDICAL / Pain Management