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

• Superior document: The compact clinical guide series
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Marmo, Liza.
• TeilnehmendeR: D'Arcy, Yvonne M.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Compact clinical guide series.
• Physical Description: xi, 360 p. :; ill.

Table of 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.