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Radiographic Imaging for Regional Anesthesia and Pain Management
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Rating:  - Many problems, but may have a role as a reference once you're trained
I recently started my Pain fellowship and decided to buy a few books to get my learning off on the right foot. This was one of them. I have been completely disappointed with the quality of this text for a number of reasons:
1. There are many editorial mistakes
2. information (images and descriptions) is repeated in multiple sections indicating that rather than writing original content for each chapter or procedure, the same old information was rehashed as filler.
3. Although there are many pictures in this text, the radiographic images are often blurry and not up to par with other atlases.
4. descriptions are often hard to follow and not substantiated with enough new figures or images.
I recently bought the Fenton atlas. Although it is a bit more expensive, I highly recommend the investment over this Raj book which could certainly be skipped altogether!
Addendum March, 2006 - Now that I have completed fellowship I have to amend my prior comments. I do think this atlas has a role in the sense that it is useful as a reference to go back and review procedures that you do not do frequently, but may need to brush up on for a case the next day. As previously mentioned, it is not great for the beginner to learn the techniques and theory as pictures and content isn't the best, but it does have a very large list of procedures described, which is more extensive than other procedural atlases that I've read. So if you already know how to do a procedure and just need a review of landmarks and images, this has a more comprehensive list of procedures described (Headache, facial pain, spine, peripheral, sympathetic, implants) than say Fenton for example.
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