Dawn Marcus, M.D.

This text offers primary care clinicians practical, clear, and succinct evidence-based approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of the painful conditions they see in their offices every day.

I’ve simplified the often complex care of patients with chronic pain by providing practical strategies for targeting important symptoms, establishing realistic treatment goals, and managing patients with instructional sheets that can be copied directly from the book and used for both education and the monitoring of therapeutic compliance and response.

Numerous case-oriented practical applications illustrate the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with chronic pain in the context of a busy office practice. Important sections on opioid therapy and special patient groups are also included. Supplementary features include a value-added compact disk containing an ebook version of the book or use in the reader’s computer or PDA, and continuing medical education (CME) questions that provide the opportunity to acquire 5 AMA/PRA category 1 credits.

Patients with chronic pain present a unique set of challenges to the primary care clinician. In Chronic Pain: A Primary Care Guide to Practical Management, Second Edition, leading pain specialist Dawn A. Marcus, MD, again offers practical, clear, and succinct evidence-based approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of the myriad painful conditions clinicians see in their offices every day, such as headache, back pain, arthritis, fibromyalgia, and abdominal pain. Sections addressing pain management in children, pregnant women, and seniors are also included. This new edition is designed to provide a pragmatic approach to assessing and treating the complex issues and characteristics of chronic pain patients. New chapters expand upon the evidence-based recommendations and practical office tools previously provided, with the addition of new chapters addressing risk management; pain syndromes in the shoulder, upper extremity, and lower extremity; and cancer and end-of-life pain. Of special value, the charting forms and patient educational materials on CD-ROM have been expanded to include ready-to-use screening tools for depression and anxiety, neuropathic pain tools, and fibromyalgia assessment tools. Chronic Pain: A Primary Care Guide to Practical Management, Second Edition provides strategies and techniques that are designed to improve the confidence with which the primary care physician can approach patients with complex pain complaints, reduce staff stress, and improve patient success.

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Chronic Pain
An Atlas of Investigation and Management
Dawn A. Marcus, MD

Drawing on the resources and extensive clinical experience of anesthesiology, internal medicine, neurology, oncology, and rheumatology this atlas provides ready access to descriptions of common pain syndromes, patient photographs and imaging studies, and evidence-based data summaries from the latest research studies, all presented in easy-to-understand visual formats.

Pain assessment and management is addressed by including common syndromes from most body regions, and medication, non-medication, and interventional therapy options for non-malignant and malignant chronic pain.

An entire chapter focused on pain management tools for patients provides charting documentation aids and educational patient handouts to facilitate patients’ understanding of their individual pain syndrome and a variety of pain management techniques.

Extensive use of figures, algorithms, tables, and boxes, along with the patient educational materials, makes this book an invaluable chronic pain reference as well as a practical resource for daily clinical practice.

Key features:

• A unique and broad-based resource
• Draws on extensive clinical experience of anesthesiology, internal medicine, neurology, oncology, and rheumatology
• Easy to understand visual format
• Incorporates latest evidence-based summaries of treatment options
• Special chapters focus on Headache, Back Pain, Neuropathic Pain, Arthritis and Cancer pain
• Includes Patient Education materials

Dawn Marcus is a diplomate of the American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry. Since 1990, she has been a faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and is currently a professor in the Department of Anesthesiology. She has treated patients with a variety of chronic pain complaints at the Pain Evaluation and Treatment Institute at the University of Pittsburgh. She is also the Director of Research at the Multidisciplinary Headache Clinic. A prolific author, Dr. Marcus won the Excellence in Media Award from the National Headache Foundation in 2007.

Clinical Publishing
Hardback 128 pages
ISBN 978-1-84692-033-2
To be published February 2009
List price $99.95