Compact clinical guide to acute pain management an evidence-based approach for nurses /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: D'Arcy, Yvonne M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer Pub. Co., 2011.
Series:Compact clinical guide series.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • The problem of acute pain
  • Standards, guidelines, practice statements, and the Joint Commission Standard for Acute Pain Management
  • The art and science of pain assessment
  • Assessment tools for acute pain
  • Assessing pain in specialty populations
  • Medication management with nonopioid medications
  • Opioids analgesics
  • Coanalgesics for additive pain relief
  • The effect of opioid polymorphisms and patient response to medications
  • Complementary and integrative therapies for pain management
  • Perioperative pain management
  • Patient-controlled analgesia
  • Epidural analgesia
  • Regional techniques for postoperative pain relief
  • Chronic pain patients with acute pain
  • Sickle disease
  • Patients with active use or a history of substance abuse
  • Abdominal pain
  • Emergency room, trauma, and critical care patients with pain.