Compact clinical guide to critical care, trauma and emergency pain management [electronic resource] : an evidence-based approach for nurses / Liza Marmo, Yvonne D'Arcy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The problem of pain in the critically ill -- Physiologic response and metabolic response to pain -- The art and science of pain assessment -- Assessment tools for the critically ill patient -- Assessment of pain in specialty populations -- Medication management with nonopioid medications -- Opioid analgesics -- Coanalgesics for additive pain relief -- The effect of opioid polymorphisms and patient response to medications -- Complementary and integrative therapies for pain management -- Surgical and procedural pain management -- Using patient controlled analgesia (PCA) in critical care -- Regional techniques and epidural analgesia for pain relief in critical care -- Managing pain in cardio-thoracic critical care patients -- Managing patient pain in the medical ICU -- Managing pain in the patient presenting to the emergency department -- Managing pain in the injured patient -- Special pain populations -- Pain, addiction, and opioid dependency in critical care patients.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.