Compact clinical guide to critical care, trauma and emergency pain management : an evidence-based approach for nurses / Liza Marmo, Yvonne D'Arcy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marmo, Liza.

Contributor:

D'Arcy, Yvonne M.

Series:

Compact clinical guide series.

The compact clinical guide series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pain--Treatment.

Pain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer Pub., c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This concise, comprehensive, evidence-based guide to managing cancer pain will enable nurses on the front lines of pain management to incorporate effective strategies into their daily practice. It is designed to facilitate quick information retrieval. This book focuses on all aspects of cancer pain, including assessment and screening tools, pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic treatment options, current national guidelines for pain management, regional anesthesia techniques, patient-controlled anesthesia, and epidural pain management. It also includes updated information on the effect of opioid

Contents:

The problem of pain in the critically ill

Physiologic response and metabolic response to pain

The art and science of pain assessment

Assessment tools for the critically ill patient

Assessment of pain in specialty populations

Medication management with nonopioid medications

Opioid analgesics

Coanalgesics for additive pain relief

The effect of opioid polymorphisms and patient response to medications

Complementary and integrative therapies for pain management

Surgical and procedural pain management

Using patient controlled analgesia (PCA) in critical care

Regional techniques and epidural analgesia for pain relief in critical care

Managing pain in cardio-thoracic critical care patients

Managing patient pain in the medical ICU

Managing pain in the patient presenting to the emergency department

Managing pain in the injured patient

Special pain populations

Pain, addiction, and opioid dependency in critical care patients.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8261-0808-3

OCLC:

827211819