Acute Pain Management
A Practical Guide
Saunders (Publisher)
Published on 27. September 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
205 pages
978-0-7020-1990-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Health Sciences
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
35 ills.
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 127 mm
Weight
232 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7020-1990-6 (9780702019906)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Acute Pain. Significance and Assessment. Pharmacology of Opioids. Pharmacology of Local Anesthetics. Traditional Methods of Opioid Administration. Patient-Controlled Analgesia (PCA). Epidural and Intrathecal Analgesia. Other Drugs Used in Acute Pain Management. Other Techniques Used in Acute Pain Management. Education.