Compact clinical guide to acute pain management
Subtitle: an evidence-based approach for nurses
By: Yvonne D'Arcy, MS, CRNP, CNS
Series: Compact clinical guide series; Compact clinical guide series
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780826105493; 9780826105509
Subjects: Pain; Analgesics; Therapy; Treatment; Analgesia; Acute Disease; Evidence-Based Medicine; Therapeutic use; Drug therapy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The problem of acute pain; title: Standards, guidelines, practice statements, and the Joint Commission Standard for Acute Pain Management; title: The art and science of pain assessment; title: Assessment tools for acute pain; title: Assessing pain in specialty populations; title: Medication management with nonopioid medications; title: Opioids analgesics; title: Coanalgesics for additive pain relief; title: The effect of opioid polymorphisms and patient response to medications; title: Complementary and integrative therapies for pain management; title: Perioperative pain management; title: Patient-controlled analgesia; title: Epidural analgesia; title: Regional techniques for postoperative pain relief; title: Chronic pain patients with acute pain; title: Sickle disease; title: Patients with active use or a history of substance abuse; title: Abdominal pain; title: Emergency room, trauma, and critical care patients with pain.