Compact clinical guide to critical care, trauma and emergency pain management an evidence-based approach for nurses /

Marmo, Liza.

Compact clinical guide to critical care, trauma and emergency pain management an evidence-based approach for nurses / [electronic resource] : Liza Marmo, Yvonne D'Arcy. - New York : Springer Pub., c2013. - xi, 360 p. : ill. - The compact clinical guide series . - Compact clinical guide series. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780826108081 (electronic bk.)




Pain--Treatment.


Electronic books.

RB127 / .C66 2013

616/.0472