Emergency Department Analgesia: An Evidence-Based Guide

by Edited by Stephen H. Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780521696012
• ISBN10: 0521696011
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-29
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Nowhere in medicine is there a greater imperative to act than in the recognition and management of a patient's pain. This practical and evidence-based resource for emergency medicine and acute care providers will guide physicians in the selection of an effective therapy, define appropriate dosages to use and, equally important, when a treatment doesn't work, explain why, and what to do next. Starting with chapters on the assessment of pain, the safe and effective provision of analgesia in special populations, and featuring a reference table of drug names and interactions; the bulk of the coverage moves on to describe the provision of analgesia in the wide range of conditions likely to be encountered in the emergency department. The fundamental strengths of this approach are the comprehensive coverage, focus on practicality, basis in sound evidence, and authorship by specialists with extensive experience based on years of clinical practice.

Table of Contents

Foreword Peter Rosen

Preface

Abbreviations

General Considerations: Introduction and general approach to pain James Ducharme

Assessment of pain Catherine

Prehospital analgesia

Epidemiologic overview of ED pain treatment

Geriatric analgesia

Chronic pain

NSAIDs and opioids

Nonstandard medication delivery

Reflections on ED analgesia

Part II.Chief Complaints and Diagnoses: Abdominal aortic aneurysm

Aortic dissection

Arthritis

Biliary tract pain

Bites and stings - marine

Bites and stings ndash

terrestrial

Breast pain Janet

Burns

Bursitis and periarticular inflammation

Cancer and tumor pain

Cardiac chest pain

Chest wall trauma

Chronic low back pain

Cluster headache

Corneal abrasion

Cystitis, urethritis, and prostatitis

Dysmenorrhea

Endometriosis

Esophageal spasm

Fibromyalgia

Gastritis and peptic ulcer disease

Gastroesophageal reflux disease

Hemorrhoids and perianal pain

Migraine and undifferentiated headache

Mucositis and stomatitis

Neck and back pain - mechanical strain

Neck and back pain - radicular syndromes

Neck and back pain - spinal spondylitic syndromes

Neuropathy - complex Regional Pain Syndrome

Neuropathy - diabetic

Neuropathy - HIV-related

Neuropathy - overview

Neuropathy - phantom limb pain

Ocular inflammation

Odontalgia

Orthopedic extremity trauma - sprains, strains, and fractures

Osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture

Otitis media and external

Pancreatitis

Pharyngitis

Post-dural puncture headache

Post-herpetic neuralgia

Renal colic

Sialolithiasis

Sickle cell crisis

Temporomandibular disorders

Tension-type headache

Trigeminal neuralgia

Undifferentiated abdominal pain

Appendices: NSAIDs

Opioids

Other analgesics

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