Pain and Sedation Management in the 21st Century Emergency Department, An Issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics, 1e (The Clinics: Internal Medicine)

This book extensively reviews the increased understanding and development of pain and sedation management in the emergency department. Articles address measuring pain; changing physician and nurse attitudes about pain; the drug-seeking patient; aberrant drug-related behaviors; managing chronic pain in the acute care setting; painful dilemmas; pain in the pediatric population; prehospital pain management; basic pharmacological advances; placebo use; and future directions.John T McManus MD MCR FACEP FAAEM is the author of 'Pain and Sedation Management in the 21st Century Emergency Department, An Issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics, 1e (The Clinics: Internal Medicine)', published 2005 under ISBN 9781416027119 and ISBN 1416027114.