Akut och cancerrelaterad smärta – Smärtmedicin Vol. 1
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Breivik Harald
Reviewed Publication:
Werner Mads U. Bäckryd Emmanuel Liber AB Stockholm 2019 978-91-47-11287-6 602 pages
This third edition of the comprehensive Swedish textbook on “everything” related to pain, to pain mechanisms, to the pain-experience as a bio-psycho-social phenomenon, its assessment and management based on solid knowledge from recent research, is a major undertaking. In order to make this thoroughly up-dated textbook project manageable it now comes in two volumes of each some 600+ pages.
This book is edited by Mads U. Werner of Lund (and Copenhagen) and Emmanuel Bäckryd from Linköping. It is extremely well edited, all chapters clearly well researched and up-to-date, well-illustrated with figures and tables that are so well done (figures mostly by MUW), that reading, understanding, and remembering the key messages come easily to the reader. The Swedish language is understood by most health care persons in the five Nordic countries, around 20–25 million inhabitants altogether.
The present Volume 1, covering acute pain and pain related to cancer, is a multi-author publication of 16 chapters by 23 Swedish authors, in addition to 11 chapters authored and co-authored by the two editors.
Volume 2, covering the complex issues around “chronic pain”, is on its way, hopefully available sometime in the spring of 2020.
In Volume 1 there are three sections: The first section is about pain physiology, psychology of pain, pharmacology and pain research; the second section about acute pain covers several aspects of postoperative pain, pain in the intensive care unit, obstetric pain, acute abdominal and orthopaedic pain, as well as pain in children.
The third section covers most aspects of cancer-related pain in 10 chapters, including palliative care and the challenging management of children with cancer-related pain.
Knowing well the burden of editing a multi-author publication like this one, creating a coherent and highly reliable, up-to-date book, the two editors, Mads U. Werner and Emmanuel Bäckryd, have my deepest admiration. I congratulate them and the many grateful readers in the Nordic countries and beyond, who will benefit greatly from reading and studying this book.
I am eagerly awaiting Volume 2 on “chronic pain”, soon to be released as well.
Harald Breivik
Professor emeritus from the University of Oslo and
Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Scandinavian Journal of Pain
©2020 Scandinavian Association for the Study of Pain. Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston. All rights reserved.
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Systematic review
- Are there differences in lifting technique between those with and without low back pain? A systematic review
- Topical reviews
- Pain psychology in the 21st century: lessons learned and moving forward
- Chronic abdominal pain and persistent opioid use after bariatric surgery
- Clinical pain research
- Spinal cord stimulation for the treatment of complex regional pain syndrome leads to improvement of quality of life, reduction of pain and psychological distress: a retrospective case series with 24 months follow up
- The feasibility of gym-based exercise therapy for patients with persistent neck pain
- Intervention with an educational video after a whiplash trauma – a randomised controlled clinical trial
- Reliability of the conditioned pain modulation paradigm across three anatomical sites
- Is rotator cuff related shoulder pain a multidimensional disorder? An exploratory study
- Are degenerative spondylolisthesis and further slippage postoperatively really issues in spinal stenosis surgery?
- Multiprofessional assessment of patients with chronic pain in primary healthcare
- The impact of chronic orofacial pain on health-related quality of life
- Pressure pain thresholds in children before and after surgery: a prospective study
- Observational studies
- An observational study on risk factors for prolonged opioid prescription after severe trauma
- Dizziness and localized pain are often concurrent in patients with balance or psychological disorders
- Pre-consultation biopsychosocial data from patients admitted for management at pain centers in Norway
- Original experimentals
- Local hyperalgesia, normal endogenous modulation with pain report beyond its origin: a pilot study prompting further exploration into plantar fasciopathy
- Pressure pain sensitivity in patients with traumatic first-time and recurrent anterior shoulder dislocation: a cross-sectional analysis
- Cross-cultural adaptation of the Danish version of the Big Five Inventory – a dual-panel approach
- The development of a novel questionnaire assessing alterations in central pain processing in people with and without chronic pain
- Letters to the Editor
- The clinical utility of a multivariate genetic panel for identifying those at risk of developing Opioid Use Disorder while on prescription opioids
- Should we use linked chronic widespread pain and fibromyalgia diagnostic criteria?
- Book review
- Akut och cancerrelaterad smärta – Smärtmedicin Vol. 1
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Systematic review
- Are there differences in lifting technique between those with and without low back pain? A systematic review
- Topical reviews
- Pain psychology in the 21st century: lessons learned and moving forward
- Chronic abdominal pain and persistent opioid use after bariatric surgery
- Clinical pain research
- Spinal cord stimulation for the treatment of complex regional pain syndrome leads to improvement of quality of life, reduction of pain and psychological distress: a retrospective case series with 24 months follow up
- The feasibility of gym-based exercise therapy for patients with persistent neck pain
- Intervention with an educational video after a whiplash trauma – a randomised controlled clinical trial
- Reliability of the conditioned pain modulation paradigm across three anatomical sites
- Is rotator cuff related shoulder pain a multidimensional disorder? An exploratory study
- Are degenerative spondylolisthesis and further slippage postoperatively really issues in spinal stenosis surgery?
- Multiprofessional assessment of patients with chronic pain in primary healthcare
- The impact of chronic orofacial pain on health-related quality of life
- Pressure pain thresholds in children before and after surgery: a prospective study
- Observational studies
- An observational study on risk factors for prolonged opioid prescription after severe trauma
- Dizziness and localized pain are often concurrent in patients with balance or psychological disorders
- Pre-consultation biopsychosocial data from patients admitted for management at pain centers in Norway
- Original experimentals
- Local hyperalgesia, normal endogenous modulation with pain report beyond its origin: a pilot study prompting further exploration into plantar fasciopathy
- Pressure pain sensitivity in patients with traumatic first-time and recurrent anterior shoulder dislocation: a cross-sectional analysis
- Cross-cultural adaptation of the Danish version of the Big Five Inventory – a dual-panel approach
- The development of a novel questionnaire assessing alterations in central pain processing in people with and without chronic pain
- Letters to the Editor
- The clinical utility of a multivariate genetic panel for identifying those at risk of developing Opioid Use Disorder while on prescription opioids
- Should we use linked chronic widespread pain and fibromyalgia diagnostic criteria?
- Book review
- Akut och cancerrelaterad smärta – Smärtmedicin Vol. 1
