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Book review
Management of Acute and Chronic Pain.
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Management of Acute and Chronic Pain. Edited by Narinder Rawal. (Pp 230). Published by BMJ Books, London 1998. ISBN 0-7279-1193-7.
This book purports itself to be a comprehensive reference. Certainly the title would suggest so. However, it is clear that this is not a comprehensive text, but a book that is an update on particular timely topics in the field of pain medicine. There are sections on pain mechanisms with a chapter on the pharmacology of acute and chronic pain, and other chapters on postoperative pain, obstetric pain, and acute paediatric pain. There are three further chapters specifically on the management of chronic low back pain, cancer pain, and an overview of interventional pain techniques.
Many of the authors are internationally known and this is perhaps the book’s strongest point—one does get a state of the art …