Pain Management and Anesthesiology contains the presentations made at
the 43rd Annual Postgraduate Course in Anesthesiology sponsored by the
University of Utah and held at Snowbird, Utah, USA, February 20-24,
1998.
This volume addresses recent advances in the understanding of the basic
science and clinical management of pain. The textbook includes sections
on recent advances in the understanding of pain signal processing, as
well as reviews of the clinical management of acute, chronic,
cancer-related, and pediatric pain. In addition, this text includes a
discussion of the behavioral assessment and treatment of the pain
patient. This textbook is the sixteenth in a continuing series
documenting the proceedings of the postgraduate course.