Compact Clinical Guide to Critical Care, Trauma, and Emergency Pain Management. an Evidence-Based Approach for Nurses

Description

"This is an excellent resource for nurses practicing in critical care units, emergency departments, and trauma units, as well as for midlevel providers who manage these patients.--Doody's Medical Reviews

"Compact Clinical Guide to Critical Care, Trauma, and Emergency Pain Management is a concise, easy-to-read resource for nurses who want to reinforce their foundational knowledge in this area."--Critical Care Nurse

This addition to Springer Publishing's Compact Clinical Guide to Pain Management Series presents evidence-based national guidelines and treatment algorithms for managing pain in patients in the critical care, trauma, and emergency room settings. Such patients often present with co-morbid and complex conditions which often make accurate pain assessment and treatment a challenge.

In an easy-to-use, bulleted format, the book provides the most current information on assessing and managing pain in a variety of critical conditions. Both pharmacological management therapies and non-pharmacologic interventions are included along with information about pain assessment screening tools for special populations. Topics covered include the basics of pain physiology in critical, emergency, and operative care patients, assessing pain in the critically ill, medications and advanced pain management techniques useful with this population, and commonly occurring conditions in the various care environments. Also addressed are the management of particularly challenging patients (elderly, obese) and conditions (chronic pain, renal failure, chemically dependent patients, and burn patients). The book contains tables that efficiently summarize information and figures to illustrate key concepts. Pain rating scales and a helpful equi-analgesic conversion table are included in the Appendix.

Key Features:

• Provides evidence-based information on treating pain in critical care, trauma, and emergency room patients for all practice levels
• Organized for quick access to pertinent clinical information on treatment options and pain types
• Provides cross-referenced indexing and easy-to-use assessment and screening tools
• Includes information for treating especially challenging and difficult to manage patient pain scenarios

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgment

SECTION I: OVERVIEW OF PAIN
1. The Problem of Pain in the Critically Ill
2. Physiologic and Metabolic Responses to Pain

SECTION II: ASSESSING PAIN
3. The Art and Science of Pain Assessment
4. Assessment Tools
5. Assessing Pain in Specialty Populations

SECTION III: MEDICATIONS AND TREATMENT FOR PAIN
6. Medication Management With Nonopioid Medications
7. Opioid Analgesics
8. Coanalgesics for Additive Pain Relief
9. Complementary and Integrative Therapies for Pain Management
10. The Effect of Opioid Polymorphisms and Patient Response to Medications

SECTION IV: ADVANCED PAIN MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES
11. Surgical and Procedural Pain Management in Critical Care
12. Using Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA) in Critical Care
13. Regional Techniques and Epidural Analgesia for Pain Relief in Critical Care

SECTION V: CRITICAL CARE, EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT AND TRAUMA PATIENTS WITH PAIN
14. Managing Pain in Cardiothoracic Critical Care Patients
15. Managing Patient Pain in the Medical Intensive Care Unit
16. Managing Patients Seeking Pain Relief in the Emergency Department
17. Managing Pain in the Patient Suffering Trauma

SECTION VI: DIFFICULT TO TREAT PATIENT POPULATIONS
18. Managing Pain in Special Patient Populations
19. Pain, Addiction, and Opioid Dependency in Critical Care Patients

Index

Author Bio

Liza Marmo, RN-BC, MSN, CCRN, has worked in a variety of roles at the Morristown Medical Center in Morristown, NJ for 20 years, including nurse manager at the Morristown Medical Center Pain Management Center. She has been co-chair of the Pain Steering Committee and Chair of Pain Resource Nurses. Ms. Marmo taught pain in hospital orientation and provided education to staff nurses on pain management at Morristown Medical Center. She also maintained responsibility for HCACHP which the hospital was meeting the national average. Ms Marmo was the principal investigator for a research study on "Pain Assessment Tool in the Critically Ill CPACU Patient. She has had the opportunity to share her research efforts and her expertise in pain and critical care through publication and presentations locally and nationally. Ms. Marmo currently holds certifications in AACN Critical care and ANCC Pain Management

Yvonne D'Arcy, MS, CRNP, CNS, is the Pain Management and Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner at Suburban Hospital- Johns Hopkins Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. She has served on the board of directors for the American Society of Pain Management Nurses and has played an integral role in the formulation of several guidelines on the management of acute and chronic pain. She is a Principle Investigator at Suburban Hospital for several studies to include the use of EMLA to reduce pain in elderly patients when IVs are placed. and the Dissemination and Implementation of Evidence -based methods to Measure and Improve Pain Outcomes. Ms. D'Arcy is also the recipient of the Nursing Spectrum Nursing Excellence Award in the Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia districts for Advancing and Leading the Profession. She has contributed to numerous books and journals throughout her career. Books include Pain Management: Evidence-Based Tools and Techniques for Nursing Professionals, Compact Clinical Guide to Chronic Pain, and Her book, How to Manage Pain in the Elderly is an American Journal of Nursing book of the year for 2010.Her books, A Compact Clinical Guide to Cancer Pain co-authored with Pamela Davies, and A Compact Clinical to Women's Pain, are scheduled for a 2012 publication. Ms D'Arcy lectures and presents nationally and internationally on such topics as chronic pain, difficult-to-treat neuropathic pain syndromes, how to teat pain in the elderly, and all aspects of acute pain management. Articles she has published can be found in an extensive number of journals, including but not limited to American Nurse Today, Nursing 2011, Pain Management Nursing, PT Insider, and Nurse Practitioner Journal.