Karen H. Simpson

This is an extensive revision of the 1994 edition of this work. It provides a concise guide to anaesthesia and pain relief in emergency medicine, and includes the new 1997 European Resuscitation Council Guidelines and resuscitation techniques.

Taking a practical approach, this text includes most non-drug methods of pain control, covering alternatives to oral and parenteral analgesics for patients with difficult cancer pain. It provides a collection of chapters by international experts.

This title gives advice on advanced pain management techniques for cancer pains. Emphasis is placed on the suitability and selection of patients for different invasive and complex procedures based on the patient's history. Case histories provide compressive insight into the complexities of holistic management, with pain being only one of the factors that distress patients and families.