Compact Clinical Guide to Critical Care, Trauma, and Emergency Pain Management: An Evidence-Based Approach for Nurses

 "This is an excellent resource for nurses practicing in critical care units, emergency departments, and trauma units, as well as for midlevel providers who manage these patients.--Doody's Medical Reviews

This addition to Springer Publishing's Compact Clinical Guide to Pain Management Series presents evidence-based national guidelines and treatment algorithms for managing pain in patients in the critical care, trauma, and emergency room settings. Such patients often present with co-morbid and complex conditions which often make accurate pain assessment and treatment a challenge.

In an easy-to-use, bulleted format, the book provides the most current information on assessing and managing pain in a variety of critical conditions. Both pharmacological management therapies and non-pharmacologic interventions are included along with information about pain assessment screening tools for special populations. Topics covered include the basics of pain physiology in critical, emergency, and operative care patients, assessing pain in the critically ill, medications and advanced pain management techniques useful with this population, and commonly occurring conditions in the various care environments. Also addressed are the management of particularly challenging patients (elderly, obese) and conditions (chronic pain, renal failure, chemically dependent patients, and burn patients). The book contains tables that efficiently summarize information and figures to illustrate key concepts. Pain rating scales and a helpful equi-analgesic conversion table are included in the Appendix.

Key Features:

• Provides evidence-based information on treating pain in critical care, trauma, and emergency room patients for all practice levels
• Organized for quick access to pertinent clinical information on treatment options and pain types
• Provides cross-referenced indexing and easy-to-use assessment and screening tools
• Includes information for treating especially challenging and difficult to manage patient pain scenarios

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgment

SECTION I: OVERVIEW OF PAIN

1. The Problem of Pain in the Critically Ill

2. Physiologic and Metabolic Responses to Pain

SECTION II: ASSESSING PAIN

3. The Art and Science of Pain Assessment

4. Assessment Tools

5. Assessing Pain in Specialty Populations

SECTION III: MEDICATIONS AND TREATMENT FOR PAIN

6. Medication Management With Nonopioid Medications

7. Opioid Analgesics

8. Coanalgesics for Additive Pain Relief

9. Complementary and Integrative Therapies for Pain Management

10. The Effect of Opioid Polymorphisms and Patient Response to Medications

SECTION IV: ADVANCED PAIN MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES

11. Surgical and Procedural Pain Management in Critical Care

12. Using Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA) in Critical Care

13. Regional Techniques and Epidural Analgesia for Pain Relief in Critical Care

SECTION V: CRITICAL CARE, EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT AND TRAUMA PATIENTS WITH PAIN

14. Managing Pain in Cardiothoracic Critical Care Patients

15. Managing Patient Pain in the Medical Intensive Care Unit

16. Managing Patients Seeking Pain Relief in the Emergency Department

17. Managing Pain in the Patient Suffering Trauma

SECTION VI: DIFFICULT TO TREAT PATIENT POPULATIONS

18. Managing Pain in Special Patient Populations

19. Pain, Addiction, and Opioid Dependency in Critical Care Patients

Index