Topics in pain medicine – for continuing education and advanced training

  • Would you like to stay informed about changes, innovations, current topics or trends in your field?
  • Do you want practical information that is presented clearly and understandably?
  • They are about to take the exam for the additional training course "Special Pain Therapy" and
  • Would you like to learn or refresh the most important facts about your field?

Then this new publication is for you! It offers you up-to-date, high-quality, and comprehensive expertise in pain medicine – written and reviewed by experts – on topics including:

  • Tumor-related fatigue and its psychosocial burdens
  • Headache due to increased cerebrospinal fluid pressure
  • Caudal anesthesia in children: Significance and safety aspects
  • Fabry disease – diagnosis and therapy
  • Different types of headaches from Chapter 4 of the International
  • Headache classification
  • Chronic postoperative pain – physiology, risk factors and prevention
  • Phantom pain – Psychological treatment strategies
  • Ultrasound in interventional pain therapy

The content corresponds to the CME articles from the journal "Der Schmerz" from issue 1/2012 – issue 03/2013 and is based on the continuing education content for the additional training course "Special Pain Therapy".

Göbel, Hartmut; Sabatowski, Rainer (eds.)
CME articles from: Der Schmerz, January 2012 – June 2013.
2013, approx. 110 pp., 18 illustrations, 11 in color.
Available from: Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, Berlin, New York