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Edited by F. Michael Ferrante and Timothy R. Vadeboncouer. 689 pp., illustrated. New York, Churchill Livingstone, 1993. $74.95. ISBN 0-443-08766-0.

The field of postoperative pain management is rapidly developing a body of specialized knowledge for practitioners to use in improving the quality of patient care. This textbook is an excellent guide to the new advances in postoperative pain management. Its reasonable length and price will appeal to both individuals and institutions, and it will be useful for all practitioners and trainees concerned with postoperative and acute pain.

The preface outlines the philosophy behind this new approach to pain management. "Balanced analgesia" is the use of pharmacologic and regional-anesthetic techniques to blunt or abolish the physiologic processes involved in pain nociception. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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