Anestesiologi

Palliative care is an area of increasing importance, dealing with care of the dying. It is a truly multidisciplinary specialty combining the expertise of oncologists, anaethetists, nurses and many other therapeutic groups. Because of this, the eff...

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Excellent reviews of the first edition confirm the significant contribution to chronic pain management this book has made. The new edition of the The Management of Chronic Pain provides an up-to-date account of how to deal with the major chronic p...

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The second edition of this book includes a revised section on paediatric resuscitation summarizing the main guidelines. The section on major trauma has been extended to follow the Advanced Paediatric Life support guidelines. The book will continue...

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This book is a simple guide to the diagnosis, investigation, and treatment of all gynaecological cancers. It discusses the management of patients with gynaecological malignancies, considering the principles of chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and surge...

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Cardiac Anaesthesia: A Practical Handbook is the first concise reference to cover all aspects of cardiac anaesthesia. Written for medical practitioners with little or no cardiac experience, the book covers many areas including anatomy, physiology,...

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This book is the first to provide a multidisciplinary approach to the management of cranio-facial trauma. Each section has been written by a specialist involved in cranio-facial trauma, from the point of view of their own discipline, and presents ...

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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, ...

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This new edition of Anaesthesia and Analgesia in Emergency Medicine has been extensively revised throughout, especially with regard to resuscitation techniques, including the new 1997 European Resuscitation Council Guidelines. It provides a concis...

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This book covers service provision for people dying from causes other than cancer looking at the difficulties in estimating prognosis for non-cancer patients; the appropriateness of caring for non-cancer patients alongside cancer patients; the bal...

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This book reviews the dramatic disorders that present in the head and face. It discusses the real difficulty in understanding pain when the number of patients with ideopathic disorders far outnumber those who present with conditions that are well ...

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This volume of Frontiers in Headache Research focuses on cluster headache and other closely related conditions. Although underdiagnosed, cluster headache is a severe form of primary headache. Its relatively stereotypical clinical presentation make...

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The book aims to provide practical advice on the care of people with ALS/MND. The authors come from a wide spread of professional backgrounds and from countries across the world. The many different aspects of care are considered and the differing ...

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Palliative care, which focuses on the management of phenomena that produce discomfort and otherwise undermine the quality of life of patients with incurable medical disorders, is a clinical specialty that is just beginning to define itself in the ...

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The second book in a series devoted to research and practice in palliative care. The 4 topics covered in this volume are Neuropathic Pain, Cachexia/Anorexia, Asthenia, and Psychological Issues in the Caregiver. The contributors present and evaluat...

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The third book in a series devoted to research and practice in palliative care. The four topics covered in this volume are Paediatric Palliative Care, The Management of Bone Pain, Psychopathology in Patients with Cancer, Skin Disorders and Their M...

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This volume reviews the state of the art in caring for patients dying in the ICU, focusing on both clinical aspects of managing pain and other symptoms, as well as ethical and societal issues that affect the standards of care recieved, The book al...

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Palliative care is rapidly evolving as a multidimensional therapeutic model devoted to improving the quality of life of all patients with life-threatening illness. Research is essential to realize progress in this field. Issues in Palliative Care ...

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This is the fifth book in a series devoted to research and practice in palliative care. This rapidly evolving field focuses on the management of phenomena that produce discomfort and that undermine the quality of life patients with incurable medic...

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The product of six years of collaborative research, this fine biography offers new interpretations of a pioneering figure in anesthesiology, epidemiology, medical cartography, and public health. It modifies the conventional rags-to-riches portrait...

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This book addresses the important issue of the role of the physician in the management of patients with a chemical dependency.

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This is a book on the history of drug discovery that highlights the intellectual splendor of discoverers as well as the human frailty associated with them.

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The 8th edition of Wolff's Headache and Other Head Pain remains the definitive reference text in the field. Knowledge and understanding of headache and its management have changed significantly in the twenty-first century. This new edition incorpo...

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This seminal work collates and categorizes in one succinct volume what we understand about the various forms of face pain syndromes. By providing information on former beliefs, as well as current understanding, this book provides multiple options ...

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A broad review of headache pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment, this book is divded into four parts. Part 1 covers head pain physiology and anatomy, headache epidemiology, and current concepts regarding headache pathophysiology. Part 2 is dev...

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Psychiatric Pharmacogenomics is a book written to help clinicians to use pharmacogenomic testing to improve the pharmacotherapy that they provide for their patients. It is designed to teach clinicians how to order pharmacogenomic tests and interpr...

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This the first comprehensive work to focus attention on treatment-resistant head pain. Experts outline innovative strategies for migraine patients who have 'tried it all' and continue to suffer. Bulleted lists and boxes make this an easy-to-use re...

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Comprehensive yet concise, this book serves as a guide for diagnostic approaches and treatment of neuropathic pain for the student, resident, practicing physician, researcher, and specialist.

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An invaluable resource for understanding the interfaces of neuroscience and anesthesiology, this book will help redefine the field of anesthesiology as a fundamentally neuroscientific field.

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