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Compact clinical guide to acute pain management : an evidence-based approach for nurses / Yvonne D'Arcy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- D'Arcy, Yvonne M.
- Series:
- Compact clinical guide series.
- Compact clinical guide series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pain--Treatment.
- Pain.
- Analgesia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (346 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Acute pain management : an evidence-based approach for nurses.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Springer Pub. Co., 2011.
- New York : Springer Pub. Co., ©2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book provides much-needed guidelines that are presented in an easy-to-use, systematic format for quick access to core concepts on acute pain management. It is designed to help busy practitioners accurately assess pain in a variety of patient populations, and select patient-appropriate medications and interventions to achieve optimal pain management for adult patients. Intended for use in primary care, internal medicine, and acute- and long-term care settings, this book covers the topics of acute pain assessment, both pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic treatment options, current informatio
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-04454-4
- 9786613044549
- 0-8261-0550-5
- OCLC:
- 710975189
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