Pain At The Pump

This book is a comprehensive guide to Targeted Drug Delivery (TDD), also known as Intrathecal Drug Delivery (IDD), and offers an overview to this unique form of treatment. The medication is delivered by intrathecal pumps and is less common than some other techniques for interventional pain management, but is essential in conditions such as refractory pain, cancer pain, multifocal pain, severe spasticity, and in patients who are not candidates for surgical correction of their underlying condition. This book is the first source to describe both the optimal surgical implantation and patient management aspect of this therapy, and thus will be a valuable single reference guide for interventional radiologists, anesthesiologists, physiatrists, oncologists, neurologists, spine surgeons, palliative care physicians, and primary care physicians.

"A detailed historical narrative of the U.S. energy crisis in the 1970s and how policymakers responded to the turmoil"--

Pain at the pump : policies that suppress domestic production of oil and gas : hearing before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, May 24, 2011.

Pain at the pump: policies that suppress domestic production of oil and gas: hearing before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, May 24, 2011.

Books on how to improve gas mileage for cars are everywhere. But here is one that you will always keep, for it is not a cut and dry listing of do's and don'ts that is merely a rehash of what is common knowledge. The author is a certified car nut who is totally into things automotive and he can get carried away when it comes to squeezing the last ounce of go-power out of a gallon of gas, and so his book goes beyond just the theoretical. All the fun of a road-trip is here. The cruise night, with all the cars pictured are illustrated free hand by him to add to the rollicking fun. And the show-and-tell covering the things he has done to his Corolla to make it go the distance like a Prius alone will get you excited. His little microcar, a 1958 Berkeley, gets over 60 miles per gallon. It has got him excited about getting the word out that small cars can be big in that they can free us from having to depend on foreign oil. With today's technologies they can make them better, stronger and more durable. Until we can ride around in the new generation of gas-sipping microcars, we will have to do what we can to make every gallon of gas go as far as possible. This book will show you how. Let all the pain Big Oil is causing you to dissipate into the desert dust, as you pack up and go on this imaginary road-trip. And you can leave your gas can at home.

"[This book] deserves to be in everyone’s library. . . . It’s loaded with great information, and it can save your life or the life of someone you love."—Dr. Joseph Mercola "This book is life-changing for those trying to understand their own bodies, or those of loved ones, and it’s truly transformative in the hands of medical professionals, especially young doctors."—Foreword Reviews Thomas Cowan was a 20-year-old Duke grad—bright, skeptical, and already disillusioned with industrial capitalism—when he joined the Peace Corps in the mid-1970s for a two-year tour in Swaziland. There, he encountered the work of Rudolf Steiner and Weston A. Price—two men whose ideas would fascinate and challenge him for decades to come. Both drawn to the art of healing and repelled by the way medicine was—and continues to be—practiced in the United States, Cowan returned from Swaziland, went to medical school, and established a practice in New Hampshire and, later, San Francisco. For years, as he raised his three children, suffered the setback of divorce, and struggled with a heart condition, he remained intrigued by the work of Price and Steiner and, in particular, with Steiner’s provocative claim that the heart is not a pump. Determined to practice medicine in a way that promoted healing rather than compounded ailments, Cowan dedicated himself to understanding whether Steiner’s claim could possibly be true. And if Steiner was correct, what, then, is the heart? What is its true role in the human body? In this deeply personal, rigorous, and riveting account, Dr. Cowan offers up a daring claim: Not only was Steiner correct that the heart is not a pump, but our understanding of heart disease—with its origins in the blood vessels—is completely wrong. And this gross misunderstanding, with its attendant medications and risky surgeries, is the reason heart disease remains the most common cause of death worldwide. In Human Heart, Cosmic Heart, Dr. Thomas Cowan presents a new way of understanding the body’s most central organ. He offers a new look at what it means to be human and how we can best care for ourselves—and one another.

This textbook provides an overview of pain management useful to specialists as well as non-specialists, surgeons, and nursing staff.

This volume provides a comprehensive accounting of pain and its relation to neurology. It is dedicated entirely to the mechanisms and clinical aspects of the subject, and provides a wealth of information on the latest neurobiological and clinical data surrounding the topic. From discussions of the physiology and pathology of the pain pathways from signaling, via spinal cord and supraspinal processing to endogenous pain modulation, users will gain an invaluable reference that provides a new understanding of pain related topics, including cytokines, sex differences, and the autonomic nervous system. Practicing clinicians, internists, surgeons, and those in the fields of psychiatry and gerontology will gain a greater understanding of this challenging topic with chapters that deal extensively with peripheral and central pain conditions, including specific disorders such as fibromyalgia, whiplash, psychiatric diseases, dementia, and even cancer. In addition, treatments for neuropathic pain are also thoroughly presented and discussed. * A comprehensive guide to the topic of pain and its relation to neurology * Invaluable information on specific topics of interest, including discussions of pain and its implications for related diseases and conditions such as fibromyalgia, whiplash, and even psychiatric disorders * Treatment protocols for neuropathic pain and patient care