Essential emergency procedural sedation and pain management / editor, Rahim Valani.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Valani, Rahim.

Series:

Essential emergency medicine series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Analgesia.

Conscious sedation.

Pain--Treatment.

Pain.

Analgesia--methods.

Conscious Sedation--methods.

Anesthetics, Combined.

Emergency Service, Hospital.

Pain Management.

Medical Subjects:

Analgesia--methods.

Conscious Sedation--methods.

Anesthetics, Combined.

Emergency Service, Hospital.

Pain Management.

Physical Description:

ix, 258 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2012]

Summary:

Procedural sedation is commonly used in the emergency department for patients undergoing painful procedures such as fracture reduction or electrical cardioversion. In the fourth volume of the Essential Emergency Medicine series, readers will find a unique interprofessional perspective in delivering procedural sedation and analgesia. Designed for staff physicians, residents, nurses, and allied health care workers, this book presents the essentials of procedural sedation and pain management, and takes readers through details of pharmacology, adverse effects, and management of chronic pain via techniques and strategies for specific body systems.

Clear, concise bulleted outline format allows rapid access to information

Offers guidance to aid practitioners in selecting the most appropriate sedative or analgesic agents for patients

Patient monitoring and safety are stressed

Includes coverage of pediatric procedural sedation and chronic pain management Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction to procedural sedation in the ED / Rahim Valani

Airway assessment and management for procedural sedation / Angela Stone, Mark Freedman

Pharmacology of procedural sedation / Vince Teo

Adverse events and complications of procedural sedation / Angela Stone, Mark Freedman

Procedural sedation and recovery / Alex Stefan, Rahim Valani

Monitoring during procedural sedation / Sharon Ramagnano

Pediatric procedural sedation / Savithri Ratnapalan

Introduction to pain management in the ED / Jeff Gadsden, Andrew Healey, Mark Mensour

Acute versus chronic pain management / Rahim Valani

Pharmacology of pain management / Leanne Drehmer

Local anesthesia / Jonathan Sherebino, Brian Levy

Regional nerve blocks / Jonathan Sherebino, Brian Levy

Pediatric pain assessment and non-pharmacological management child life at mac / Paling Karen, Bartram Sadie, Akitt Tracy

Headache / David Ng

Chest pain / Jarone Lee, Jessica Hernandez

Back pain / Elaine Rabin, Nelson Wong

Sickle cell pain / Glassberg, Jeffrey and Patricia Shi

Dental and ocular pain / Christian LaRiviere ... [et al.]

Prehospital pain management / Michelle Welsford and Greg Soto

Trauma and musculoskeletal pain / Christian LaRiviere and Shelly

Abdominal pain / Andrew Woorster, Sean Moore

Pediatric pain management / Suzan Schneeweiss

Renal and biliary colic / Andrew Worster and Rahim Valani.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781451116069

1451116063

OCLC:

741999168