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Very informative manual, suitable for a variety of audiences | Pain : Clinical Manual | Margo McCaffery, Chris Pasero

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	• Pain : Clinical Manual Margo McCaffery, Chris Pasero Mosby, 1999 - 795 pages average customer review:based on 10 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Both thumbs up

Ten years + ago I took a class in Pain management where McCaffrey's first book was the text. It was an incredible learning experience. Imagine, physcians prescribe less pain medication than needed to resolve pain and nurses give about half that amount. Why? Because as a society we are fearful of addiction and we make judgements about people who have difficulty handling pain. We don't realize the true cost of 'toughing' it out. This book is comprehensive and readable. Ms. McCaffrey et al make their case for intelligent pain control rather than knee jerk reactions. By far a blue ribbon winner in this category.

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Pain: Clinical Manuel

Very helpful for pain stradgies for patients.

Very informative manual, suitable for a variety of audiences

I think this is a wonderful book, and I would say that even if I had not written a short part of it.

The intended audience for the second edition is wider than for the first. Experts on specific health problems detail pain problems specific to those disorders.

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review of Pain ; clinical manual

set book for a course i taking
comprehensive covering all aspects of the course content
useful tool in research for the course

Rates a 20 on the VAS!!

I found this book so helpful to me in my practice, that I bought a second copy - leave one in the office, and one at home so that whenver I need a reference, it is right there. Margo and Chris have provided those of us interested in pain managment with a jewel - this book just has it all. And they generously allow you to photocopy patient education materials.

It is the best thing out there. My only regret about this book is the quality of the paper - too thin, and when you use it all the time, it tears easily. I hope in the third edition the publisher will upgrade the paper. I would be willing to spend more for better quality paper.

So, on a scale of 0 - 10, with 0 being blah and 10 being SUPER, this book is a 20!!!

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PAIN: CLINICAL MANUAL provides practical tools and guidelines for treating patients' pain in all clinical settings and age groups. This useful resource features ready-to-use, reproducible pain rating scales, guidelines, forms, and patient medication information handouts. Comprehensive pharmacologic chapters discuss the three groups of analgesics, dose titration, drug combinations, routes of administration, and prevention of side effects. Additionally, it includes pain rating scales in over 20 languages and quick guides with illustrations of selected pain problems. PAIN: CLINICAL MANUAL is a valuable resource for anyone who cares for patients with pain.

* Provides ready-to-use forms and recommendations for pain care committees to assist health care facilities to prepare for JCAHO inspections. * Includes two FREE pocket-size, laminated cards: equianalgesic charts to assist clinicians with dose calculations when changing routes of administration or analgesics, and dosing guides to commonly used adjuvants and nonopioids. * Includes FREE access to Mosby's PAIN WEBSITE. * The most clinically useful book ever published on pain, written by authorities who helped establish the pain management movement. * Includes 11 new chapters and five expanded and updated chapters to provide the most accurate, up-to-date, and comprehensive pain management information. * Includes icons to alert the reader to important, need-to-know information, such as pediatric content, patient examples, and reproducible material. * Features over 200 boxes and tables to help quickly locate key information and apply complex concepts at the bedside. * Presents a unique, multidisciplinary perspective. * Provides ready-to-use, practical, proven, and reproducible tools, pain assessment and documentation forms, and guides to analgesic use. * Contains patient information handouts on analgesics and nondrug methods of pain relief to educate the patient/family/caregiver about the patient's specific pain management. * Includes reproducible key policies, procedures, and protocols to assist the clinician in implementing patient focused interdisciplinary pain management. * Presents pharmacology content in four chapters - the three analgesic groups and an overview of how to combine them - to provide a readily understandable reference and practical resource. * Includes quick guides with illustrations of selected pain problems, such as pain related to sickle cell disease, peripheral neuropathy, and fibromyalgia. * Contains pain rating scales in over 20 languages to enhance patient/clinician communication in culturally diverse populations.

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