Compact clinical guide to acute pain management : an evidence-based approach for nurses / / Yvonne D'Arcy.

• Superior document: Compact clinical guide series
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: D'Arcy, Yvonne M.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Compact clinical guide series.
• Physical Description: x, 334 p. :; ill.

Table of 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.