Compact Clinical Guide to Acute Pain Management - Yvonne D'Arcy

Compact Clinical Guide to Acute Pain Management

An Evidence-Based Approach

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Buch | Softcover
240 Seiten
2011
Springer Publishing Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8261-0549-3 (ISBN)
79,30 inkl. MwSt
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.
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.

Yvonne D'Arcy, MS, CRNP, CNS, is the Pain Management and Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner at Suburban Hospital- Johns Hopkins Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. She has served on the board of directors for the American Society of Pain Management Nurses and has played an integral role in the formulation of several guidelines on the management of acute and chronic pain. She is a Principle Investigator at Suburban Hospital for several studies to include the use of EMLA to reduce pain in elderly patients when IVs are placed. and the Dissemination and Implementation of Evidence -based methods to Measure and Improve Pain Outcomes. Ms. D'Arcy is also the recipient of the Nursing Spectrum Nursing Excellence Award in the Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia districts for Advancing and Leading the Profession. She has contributed to numerous books and journals throughout her career. Books include Pain Management: Evidence-Based Tools and Techniques for Nursing Professionals, Compact Clinical Guide to Chronic Pain, and Her book, How to Manage Pain in the Elderly is an American Journal of Nursing book of the year for 2010.Her books, A Compact Clinical Guide to Cancer Pain co-authored with Pamela Davies, and A Compact Clinical to Women's Pain, are scheduled for a 2012 publication. Ms D'Arcy lectures and presents nationally and internationally on such topics as chronic pain, difficult-to-treat neuropathic pain syndromes, how to teat pain in the elderly, and all aspects of acute pain management. Articles she has published can be found in an extensive number of journals, including but not limited to American Nurse Today, Nursing 2011, Pain Management Nursing, PT Insider, and Nurse Practitioner Journal.

Section 1. Overview of Acute Pain
Chapter 1. The Problem of Acute Pain
Chapter 2. The Joint Commission Guidelines for Acute Pain Management
Requirements for maintaining accreditation
Suggested techniques for meeting requirements


Section II. Assessing Acute Pain


Chapter 3. The art and science of assessment
Chapter 4. Assessment tools for acute pain
Chapter 5. Assessing pain in specialty populations


Section III. Medications and Treatments for Acute Pain


Chapter 6. Non-opioid medications
Chapter 7. Opioid medications
Chapter 8. Co-analgesics
Chapter 9. Opioid polymorphisms and patient response to medications
Chapter 10 Non-pharmacologic interventions for acute pain


Section IV. Advanced Pain Management Techniques


Chapter 11. Perioperative pain management
Chapter 12. Patient controlled analgesia
Chapter 13. Epidural pain management
Chapter 14. Interventional options for pain management


Section V. Difficult to treat patient populations


Chapter 15. Chronic pain patients with acute pain
Chapter 16. Sickle cell patients
Chapter 17. Patients with active use or a history of substance abuse
Chapter 18. Abdominal pain patients
Chapter 19. Emergency room, critical care, and trauma patients


VI. Appendices
Pain Rating Assessment Tools,
Selected Websites for Guidelines
Equianalgesic Conversion Table
Opioid Rotation Chart


References
Index

Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Gewicht 344 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Pharmakologie / Pharmakotherapie
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Schmerztherapie
Medizin / Pharmazie Pflege
ISBN-10 0-8261-0549-1 / 0826105491
ISBN-13 978-0-8261-0549-3 / 9780826105493
Zustand Neuware
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