Covers with equal breadth and depth the management of the full array of both acute and chronic pain conditions. Conveys management strategies that correlate the severity of pain with the level of therapeutic intervention required to assuage it. The full array of drug treatment and analgesic strategies is discussed in detail, and often-conveyed through a detailed management algorithm in each chapter. The treatment of pain has also become very much a multi-disciplinary effort in recent years, and this will be reflected by the fact that the editorial board on this volume includes a pain medicine specialist, internist, and a nurse practitioner.