Acute Pain Management

This is a practical guide to the safe and effective management of conventional forms of analgesia and provides readers with an understanding of the newer techniques available for the treatment of acute pain in adults.

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This text aims to provide an authoritative and practical aguide for the dosage and effective management of conventional forms of analgesia and to vie an understanding of the newer more sophisticated techniques such as patient controlled analgesia and epidural analgesia. The concisely written text is supplemented with many useful checklists, flow charts and key points which can be readily referred to during treatment of a patient.