"This book is a comprehensive, very specific, clinical guide for
health care providers..."--DIMENSIONS OF CRITICAL CARE NURSING
"This well-written and well-organized book is a much needed 'middle
ground' resource between oversimplified introductions to pain
management and a thick textbook."--CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALIST
"The _Compact Clinical Guide to Acute Pain Management_ provides an
excellent overview of the processof pain management for adult patients
in any setting."--CRITICAL CARE NURSE
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 information from national guidelines, along with regional
anesthesia techniques, patient-controlled analgesia, and epidural pain
management.
KEY FEATURES:
* Offers important new perspective on combination use of pain scales
to accurately predict individual pain management needs for more
customized and effective management * Delivers information on how to
treat acute pain in hospitalized patients who also suffer from chronic
pain and substance abuse * Offers new information on opioid
polymorphisms and their surprising effect on pain medication
effectiveness * Includes a special chapter on managing pain in
difficult-to-treat patient populations
This is an essential reference for primary care providers in clinics,
hospitals, specialty care, and critical care to assess pain in general
populations and provide tips for performing pain assessment on
patients with acute pain.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780826105509
Publisert
2011
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Springer Publishing Company
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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