Main description:

This brand-new title in the Mobile Medicine series equips you with the advanced techniques and the practical guidance you need to successfully manage a full range of pain management and procedural sedations problems. Coverage of emergency and non-emergency settings, pediatric considerations, basic pharmacology, end of life issues, and more prepare you to successfully handle any situation you may encounter. Solutions containing both drug and procedural treatments help you provide efficient, effective care, while the book's portable size and user-friendly layout make information accessible and easy to understand.

Contents:

1. Glossary and Acute Pain Measurements, John Keith

2. Acute Pain Management, John Keith

3. Opioid Tolerance, Dependence, and Withdrawal: Recognition and Treatment, W. James Phillips and Anna Lerant

4. Acute Pain Management in the Chronic Pain Patient, W. James Phillips

5. Procedural Sedation, W. James Phillips and Anna Lerant

6. Procedural Sedation Medication Choices, W. James Phillips, Christopher Decker, and Nathan Shefveland

7. Pediatric Considerations, W. James Phillips and Loretta Jackson Williams

8. Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA), W. James Phillips

9. Alternative Routes and Methods of Drug Delivery, W. James Phillips and Anna Lerant

10. Intrathecal and Epidural Analgesia, W. James Phillips and Anna Lerant

11. Common Nerve Blocks, Anna Lerant and W. James Phillips

12. Analgesia and Sedation in Special Populations, W. James Phillips

13. Sedation, Analgesia, and Hemodynamic Management of the Intubated/Ventilated Patient, W. James Phillips

14. Providing Comfort at the End of Life, W. James Phillips

Appendices

Appendix A UMC Sedation Policy

Appendix B DEA Drug Schedule Overview

Appendix C DEA Drug Schedules