Pain

1. Research and Study Design

   1. Critical Analysis of Literature and Evidence-Based Medicine

      • Aaron S. Hess, Alaa Abd-Elsayed

      Pages 73-75

   2. Principles of Valid Clinical Research

      • Aaron S. Hess, Alaa Abd-Elsayed

      Pages 77-79

   3. Effects of Analysis on the Clinical Applicability of Study Results

      • Aaron S. Hess, Alaa Abd-Elsayed

      Pages 81-82

   4. Components of Clinical Trials

      • Aaron S. Hess, Alaa Abd-Elsayed

      Pages 83-85

   5. Special Features of Pain Studies

      • Craig T. Hartrick

      Pages 87-90

   6. Outcome Measures in Clinical Studies

      • Aaron S. Hess, Alaa Abd-Elsayed

      Pages 91-93

   7. Common Animal Models in the Study of Pain

      • Temugin Berta, Raquel Tonello

      Pages 95-100

   8. Ethics of Animal Experimentation

      • Elyse M. Cornett, Mark R. Jones, Alan David Kaye

      Pages 101-104

   9. Ethics of Pain Management and Research

      • Vishal M. Patel, Thelma B. Wright

      Pages 105-107

   10. Professionalism and Quality Assurance

       • Craig T. Hartrick

       Pages 109-111

   11. Placebo, Nocebo and Pain

       • Alaa Abd-Elsayed

       Pages 113-114

   12. Use of Data from Epidemiologic Studies of Pain

       • Aaron S. Hess, Alaa Abd-Elsayed

       Pages 115-117

   13. Measurement of Burden in a Population, Including Epidemiologic Measures of Occurrence

       • Aaron S. Hess, Alaa Abd-Elsayed

       Pages 119-121

   14. Observational Studies: Uses and Limitations

       • Aaron S. Hess, Alaa Abd-Elsayed

       Pages 123-125

   15. Cohort Studies

       • Aaron S. Hess, Alaa Abd-Elsayed

       Pages 127-129

   16. Case Control Studies

       • Aaron S. Hess, Alaa Abd-Elsayed

       Pages 131-133

   17. Use of Risk Factors to Guide Treatment

       • Aaron S. Hess, Alaa Abd-Elsayed

       Pages 135-138

2. Assessment of Pain

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139

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   2. Pain as a Subjective, Multidimensional Experience

      • Sarah J. Love-Jones

      Pages 141-144

   3. Introspection and Measurement of Subjective Pain Experience

      • Bobby Nourani

      Pages 145-147

This concise but comprehensive guide covers common procedures in pain management necessary for daily practice, and includes topics on international pain medicine curricula, for example, the American Board of Anesthesiology, World Institute of Pain/Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice, and American Board of Pain Medicine. Treatments for pain are discussed, including nerve blocks (head, neck, back, pelvis and lower extremity). Chapters have a consistent format including high yield points for exams, and questions in the form of case studies.

Pain: A Review Guide is aimed at trainees in pain medicine all over the world. This book will also be beneficial to all practitioners who practice pain.

• Pain mechanism
• Pain assessment
• Clinical nerve function study
• Pain treatment
• Pain management

• Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, USA

  Alaa Abd-Elsayed

Alaa Abd-Elsayed completed his MBBCh and MPH at Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt in 2000 and 2006, respectively. He did an internship at Internship, Assiut University Hospitals, Assiut, Egypt and completed a Clinical research fellowship in Anesthesiology at Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He then moved to University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA for a further internship, residency in anesthesiology and fellowship in pain medicine. Since 2014 he has worked at UW, School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA, starting as Assistant Professor/Staff Anesthesiologist and now as Medical Director for the UW Pain Clinic and Director of Pain Services for UW Health.

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