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Informationen zum Autor Yvonne D'Arcy, MS, CRNP, CNS, is the Pain and Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner at Suburban Hospital- Johns Hopkins Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. Klappentext 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 process of 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. Zusammenfassung Presents guidelines 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Section 1. Overview of Acute Pain Chapter 1. The Problem of Acute PainChapter 2. The Joint Commission Guidelines for Acute Pain ManagementRequirements for maintaining accreditationSuggested techniques for meeting requirements Section II. Assessing Acute Pain Chapter 3. The art and science of assessmentChapter 4. Assessment tools for acute painChapter 5. Assessing pain in specialty populations Section III. Medications and Treatments for Acute Pain Chapter 6. Non-opioid medicationsChapter 7. Opioid medicationsChapter 8. Co-analgesicsChapter 9. Opioid polymorphisms and patient response to medicationsChapter 10 Non-pharmacologic interventions for acute pain Section IV. Advanced Pain Management Techniques Chapter 11. Perioperative pain managementChapter 12. Patient controlled analgesiaChapter 13. Epidural pain managementChapter 14. Interventional options for pain management Section V. Difficult to treat patient populations Chapter 15. Chronic pain patients with acute painChapter 16. Sickle cell patientsChapter 17. Patients with active use or a history of substance abuseChapter 18. Abdominal pain patientsChapter 19. Emergency room, critical care, and trauma patients VI. Appendices Pain Rating Assessment Tools, Selected Websites for GuidelinesEquianalgesic Conversion Table Opioid Rotation Chart ReferencesIndex ...
