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Volume 329:973 September 23, 1993 Number 13
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Acute Pain: Mechanisms and Management

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Edited by Raymond S. Sinatra, Allen H. Hord, Brian Ginsberg, and Linda M. Preble. 636 pp., illustrated. St. Louis, Mosby-Year Book, 1992. $74. ISBN 0-8016-4677-4.

We have seen a boom in the subspecialty of pain management over the past several years, and now great interest has developed in the area of acute pain. There is a tremendous need for a reference work that specifically addresses the needs of patients with acute pain. Dr. Sinatra and his colleagues have done a wonderful job with the first textbook dedicated to just this purpose. The scope of the book ranges from pain mechanisms through pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic management for both adults and children to the information needed in starting and maintaining either a university-based or a community-based acute-pain . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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