Proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Pain (Progress in Pain Research and Management Series),Used

Product Description This volume includes plenary papers and selected abstracts from free communications presented at the 7th World Congress on Pain, held August 2227, 1993, in Paris, France. Main session topics include: psychologic factors related to chronic pain; the nociceptor as a dynamic entity; central nervous system plasticity: implications for pain perception; neuropathic pain; opioids and analgesia; pharmacology of pain control; headache; central pain; nociceptive processing; pain and age. Special topics include: the pharmacology of pain: twentyfive years of hope, despair, and hope; death of pain: pain, suffering, and ethics; the World Health Organization program in cancer pain relief and palliative care; pain management: quality assurance and changing practice; and perspectives on management of back pain in primary care. Review Overall, this volume reviews important developments of the neurobiology and pharmacology of pain, which await widespread clinical application. This is not found anywhere else under one cover...a valuable reference for all practising anaesthestists especially those involved in postoperative pain management [and it] deserves presence in the personal library of the full time clinician. Canadian Journal of AnaesthesiaWhen you open these pages, be prepared for a mindblowing experience... The central theme of the Congress was plasticity of the nervous system in response to insult... These research papers reveal the constant plasticity of the sensation of pain... More than 2500 references (over 50% of which are dated from 1990 onward) are a rich resource for anyone wishing to research a particular field. Many articles have been updated to include referenced information from 1994... This volume...should be available wherever the subject of pain is of some importance. Anaesthesia and Intensive CareThe organization of this book is elegant and reflects not only the multitude of disciplines involved in chronic pain management but the various layers, or hierarchies, through and by which pain becomes embedded within the nervous system.... It provides an excellent source for references and could encourage even the most reticent of practitioners to become excited about researches into chronic pain as a manifestation of nervous system response to injury... The Clinical Journal of PainWhen you open these pages, be prepared for a mindblowing experience... The central theme of the Congress was plasticity of the nervous system in response to insult... These research papers reveal the constant plasticity of the sensation of pain... More than 2500 references (over 50% of which are dated from 1990 onward) are a rich resource for anyone wishing to research a particular field. Many articles have been updated to include referenced information from 1994... This volume...should be available wherever the subject of pain is of some importance. Anaesthesia and Intensive CareThe organization of this book is elegant and reflects not only the multitude of disciplines involved in chronic pain management but the various layers, or hierarchies, through and by which pain becomes embedded within the nervous system.... It provides an excellent source for references and could encourage even the most reticent of practitioners to become excited about researches into chronic pain as a manifestation of nervous system response to injury... The Clinical Journal of Pain About the Author Gerald. F. Gebhart, PhD, is Professor and Director of the Center for Pain Research at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, USA. Donna L. Hammond, PhD, is Professor at University of Iowa.Troels Staehelin Jensen, MD, DMSc, is a Consultant in Neurology at Aarhus University Hospital and Professor of Experimental and Clinical Pain Research at Aarhus University in Aarhus, Denmark, and director of the Neuropathic Pain Clinic.