Pain Management and Sedation: Emergency Department Management

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Sharon Mace, James Ducharme, Michael F. Murphy
McGraw-Hill Education, 2006 - Medical - 422 pages

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DETAILED GUIDANCE ON PAIN RELIEF IN THE ED

This thorough and informative text provides ready, expert answers to both everyday questions and to the often challenging, complex, and diverse issues that arise around pain management and sedation in the emergency department. Written by three leading authorities, Pain Management and Sedation provides in-depth, yet practical and easy-to-find guidance on relieving the complaint that brings more than 50% of patients to emergency care. A groundbreaking work, it is the first text to treat this important subject in depth from the emergency room perspective.

Covering every aspect of the subject, Pain Management and Sedation offers

  • Step-by-step guidance on approaches to patients, from preprocedure through discharge
  • System-by-system patient evaluation protocols
  • In-depth coverage of specific techniques, from conscious sedation through iontophoresis
  • Drug-class by drug-class guidance on pharmacologic agents
  • Specific guidance on pediatric, geriatric, pregnant, neonatal, and other patients with special considerations
  • Coverage of useful techniques such as TENS, hypnosis, psychologic approaches, and other nonpharmacologic interventions
  • Expert advice on key policy, administrative, and legal concerns

EXPERT GUIDANCE

  • Patient assessment protocols
  • Drug regulations
  • Drug-seeking patients
  • Local and regional anesthesia
  • Conscious sedation
  • Drug therapeutics, with dosage charts
  • Patients with special considerations
  • Anxiety relief
  • Nonpharmacologic interventions
  • Legal and administrative issues
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    Contents

    Rules and Regulations and Administrative Aspects 1 The History of Procedural Sedation Michael F Murphy and Sharon E Mace
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    Definitions and Clinical Applications Sharon E Mace and Michael F Murphy
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    Regulations as Promulgated by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and Establishment of Procedural Sedation Policy ...
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    About the author (2006)

    Sharon E. Mace, MD, Director, Observation Unit, and Director, Pediatric Education, Department of Emergency Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio Dr. Mace and her colleagues at Cleveland Clinic are the recipients of several NIH grants to study pain management in the ED; this is an outgrowth of their work in chest pain/cardiovascular disease in the ED.

    Bibliographic information

    TitlePain Management and Sedation: Emergency Department Management
    EditorsSharon Mace, James Ducharme, Michael F. Murphy
    Editionillustrated
    PublisherMcGraw-Hill Education, 2006
    Original fromthe University of Michigan
    Digitized31 Jul 2008
    ISBN0071442022, 9780071442022
    Length422 pages
    Subjects › 

    Medical / Anesthesiology
    Medical / Emergency Medicine
    Medical / Pain Management
    Medical / Pharmacology
      
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