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Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. DETAILED GUIDANCE ON PAIN RELIEF IN THE ED This thorough and informative text provides ready, expert answers to both everyday questions and to the often challenging, complex, and diverse issues that arise around pain management and sedation in the emergency department. Written by three leading authorities, Pain Management and Sedation provides in-depth, yet practical and easy-to-find guidance on relieving the complaint that brings more than 50% of patients to emergency care. A groundbreaking work, it is the first text to treat this important subject in depth from the emergency room perspective. Covering every aspect of the subject, Pain Management and Sedation offers Step-by-step guidance on approaches to patients, from preprocedure through discharge System-by-system patient evaluation protocols In-depth coverage of specific techniques, from conscious sedation through iontophoresis Drug-class by drug-class guidance on pharmacologic agents Specific guidance on pediatric, geriatric, pregnant, neonatal, and other patients with special considerations Coverage of useful techniques such as TENS, hypnosis, psychologic approaches, and other nonpharmacologic interventions Expert advice on key policy, administrative, and legal concerns EXPERT GUIDANCE Patient assessment protocols Drug regulations Drug-seeking patients Local and regional anesthesia Conscious sedation Drug therapeutics, with dosage charts Patients with special considerations Anxiety relief Nonpharmacologic interventions Legal and administrative issues

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9780071442022

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Sharon E. Mace, MD, Director, Observation Unit, and Director, Pediatric Education, Department of Emergency Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio Dr. Mace and her colleagues at Cleveland Clinic are the recipients of several NIH grants to study pain management in the ED; this is an outgrowth of their work in chest pain/cardiovascular disease in the ED.

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