TY - BOOK ID - 78374242 TI - Fundamentals of pain medicine : how to diagnose and treat your patients PY - 2014 SN - 1496323785 1469885301 9781451144499 1451144490 9781469885308 9781496323781 PB - Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Health, DB - UniCat KW - Pain KW - Aches KW - Emotions KW - Pleasure KW - Senses and sensation KW - Symptoms KW - Analgesia KW - Suffering KW - Pain management KW - Pain medicine KW - Treatment. KW - Diagnosis. KW - Pain Management KW - diagnosis KW - Management, Pain KW - Managements, Pain KW - Pain Managements KW - Chronic Disease KW - therapy KW - Pain medicine. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78374242 AB - "Some patients present with a primary complaint of pain while others complain of pain secondary to a more generalized disease process or procedure. As a healthcare professional, you are trained to diagnose the pathology and then treat it. A patient presents with pneumonia, your work-up supports the diagnosis; you treat it, then the patient gets better. However, another layer of patient care needs more focus in the medical community. If the patient with pneumonia complains of intercostal pain secondary to a violent cough, we have the ability to manage the symptoms of pain effectively, and should not hesitate to do so promptly. Our actions to alleviate pain will not hinder our ability to treat the underlying disease. Yet modern medicine often considers these goals mutually exclusive, with pain management a distance second. As medical professionals, when we have an incomplete understanding of how to treat a condition, we under treat it, erring on the side of do no harm. This book will give you the confidence to confront your patient's discomfort and succeed in conquering the pain"--Provided by publisher. ER -