Pain in the Critically Ill: Assessment and ManagementKathleen A. Puntillo Winner of the 1991 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award, this book covers the current knowledge and understanding of pain and how it is experienced by the critically ill, often in a strange environment, while receiving intensive and almost constant nursing care. Emphasis is on the most recent scientific advances in pain management and their application to critically ill patients, As well as the pain experiences of various patient populations. |
Contents
Chapter 1Pain and Related Stress in the Critical Care | 3 |
Chapter 2The Physiology of Pain and Its Consequences | 9 |
Perception of Pain | 16 |
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Common terms and phrases
activity acute pain adequate administration adult afferent analgesia analgesic anesthesia anesthetic angina anxiety associated bolus Bonica burn patients cancer pain cardiac catheter chest tube child chronic pain clinical cognitive continuous infusion coping Cousins critical care nurse critical care setting critical care unit critically ill patient decreased distress doses drug epidural evaluation factors Fagerhaugh fentanyl fibers Foley hydromorphone increased infants influence intrathecal intravenous Journal management of pain McGill Pain Questionnaire medication Melzack Meperidine methadone morphine muscle naloxone narcotic neonates nerve neurons nociceptive nociceptors oncology opiate pain assessment pain behavior pain control pain experience pain intensity pain management pain perception pain relief patient-controlled analgesia patients in pain patients with cancer Pediatric pharmacological physiological PICU postoperative pain postoperative patient potential procedures psychoactive drugs psychological receptors relaxation respiratory depression response to pain sensory side effects spinal cord spinal opioids stimulation surgery sympathetic symptoms techniques tion treatment
References to this book
Priorities in Critical Care Nursing Linda Diann Urden,Kathleen M. Stacy,Mary E. Lough Snippet view - 2008 |