Customer Reviews Rating: - excellent book
Great pictures/diagrams, brief but clear, very good for quick read/reference. Lacks some detail but the basics are well described. I consider it a required text for any pain library.
Rating: - Quick Read
My fellowship(University Hospitals of Cleveland, Case Medical Center) used this book as an overview for OR procedures in the first 3 weeks of fellowship. We read it cover to cover and presented it in conference twice a week for the first 3 weeks. There is a lot of redundancy in the chapters but it is good as an introduction to the basic bread and butter. There is not much explanation of the physiology of pain as compared to the Raj textbook. The Raj textbook does have errors in it but it covers SO much more. We are using the Raj book now in our didactics in the same manner but it will take us 5-6 weeks to finish in our bi-weekly conferences. Hope this is helpful.
Rating: - A book I recommend to my fellow
Dr. James Rathmell makes interventional pain management really easy. As I recall this is one of the few books that teaches how to do interventional pain procedures using a coaxial thecnique. This is a must have book specially for pain fellows.