Essential Emergency Procedural Sedation and Pain Management


Book Description

Procedural sedation is commonly used in the emergency department for patients undergoing painful procedures such as fracture reduction or electrical cardioversion. The fourth volume in the Essential Emergency Medicine series, Essential Emergency Procedural Sedation and Pain Management provides a unique interprofessional perspective on delivering procedural sedation and analgesia. The book is designed for staff physicians, residents, nurses, professionals, and allied health care workers. Although procedural sedation is commonly employed and recognized as a required skill set for emergency physicians, there is a lack of appropriate education in the area, and this book bridges gaps in training, especially in the interprofessional team setting.







Pain Management and Procedural Sedation Handbook


Book 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. Presents a balanced approach to pain management, combining techniques and agents such as neural blockade and parenteral therapy so you can optimally treat your patients. Offers up-to-date expert guidance on pain management and procedural sedation, keeping you on the cusp of the latest advances. Delivers key concepts in each chapter to help you communicate better at the bedside and on clinical rounds. Includes basic pharmacology and considerations of alternative agents and methods so you have a more versatile approach to pain management. Features a logical organization, quick reference tables, key point boxes, concise algorithms, and focused content that get you to the answers you need in a flash.




Pain Management and Sedation: Emergency Department Management


Book Description

The only reference on managing pain in the emergency room, this groundbreaking resource is the first book to provide an authoritative, clinical reference on managing acute pain and chronic pain problems in the ER. Includes drug and dosage tables throughout with details on drug therapeutics, regulations, drug-seeking patients, legal aspects of pain management and sedation, and more.




Sedation


Book Description

This definitive, authoritative clinical manual stands alone in the field of patient sedation. Combining essential theory with technical instruction, it presents "everything in a nutshell" for the practicing professional and student of dentistry. Key factors such as the physical, emotional, and mental condition of the patient - as well as required ADA guidelines - are incorporated into sedation techniques designed to improve the patient's overall dental experience. The result is an indispensable book, expert in its professional protocols and techniques, and comprehensive in its wide-ranging considerations. Detailed chapters, divided into eight parts, are devoted to topics on: the problem of fear and anxiety in dentistry; pain and anxiety control; pharmacosedation; history and techniques of general anesthesia; inhalation and intravenous sedation, preparation and management of emergencies in the dental office; and sedation for special needs patients - pediatric, geriatric, and medical and physically compromised patients.




Equine Anesthesia and Pain Management


Book Description

"Equine Anesthesia and Pain Management: A Color Handbook brings together key information for clinicians in an easy-to-use, problem-orientated format. It disseminates a wealth of knowledge about horse, donkey, and mule anesthesia and pain management in a quick reference style, with a focus on clinical practice. Fifteen chapters by expert contributors cover everything from anesthetic equipment, premedication and physical restraint, to total intravenous anesthesia, inhalant anesthesia and partial intravenous anesthesia, recovery, complications, and euthanasia. Over XX superb color photographs and diagrams bring the material to life"--




Handbook of Nitrous Oxide and Oxygen Sedation - E-Book


Book Description

This unique chairside handbook is the only product of its kind focused specifically on nitrous oxide and oxygen sedation. Handbook of Nitrous Oxide and Oxygen Sedation, 4th Edition takes a need-to-know approach, featuring a user-friendly outline format that is easy to digest along, with summary tables and boxes, helpful icons, clear illustrations, and step-by-step techniques with photos. Now in full color, this portable text is ideal in educational and clinical settings. - Comprehensive coverage with the convenience and portability of a handbook equips a dental team member with all the background, technique, recovery, and additional information necessary to administer and monitor N2O/O2 sedation. - Easy-to-use presentation utilizes a standard outline style that facilitates knowledge acquisition and provides a quick reference for consultation or chairside reference. - Step-by-step techniques equip you with detailed guidance on how to best perform techniques to gain confidence and easily review procedures. - FAQs supplied in an entire chapter devoted to commonly asked questions and answers regarding N2O/O2 sedation offers an excellent resource for patient education. - Reference tables and boxes offer easy-to-read summaries of text discussions that support visual learners and serve as useful review and study tools. - Expert multidisciplinary author team encompasses a breadth of experience in practice and a passion for education, ensuring that you are learning the best content from the best teachers. - NEW! Chapter focuses on the types supply systems and equipment necessary to deliver N2O/O2 sedation. - NEW! Coverage of the latest in N2O/O2 sedation, including the hazard communication standard, ensures that you are up to date on current issues, techniques, and equipment - NEW! Full-color presentation improves clarity and comprehension of content, specifically the color-coding system for gases. - NEW! Artwork, including color photos and illustrations, highlights the latest equipment and also enhances the learning experience and appeal for visual learners. - NEW! End-of-chapter review questions and answers support the educational needs of students preparing for board and clinical exams.




Pain-Relieving Procedures


Book Description

Effective pain management requires increasingly specialized knowledge. Multidisciplinary information is required if you intend to practice pain management at a high level of effectiveness. This includes anatomy and physiology, pain syndromes, diagnosis and management, and the correct use of interventional techniques. Pain-Relieving Procedures: The Illustrated Guide provides you with a step-by-step guide to interventional techniques underpinned by a solid multidisciplinary knowledge base. The text is enhanced by the wide use of illustrations, including amazing color 3D-CT images that enable you to easily visualize anatomy. The first part of the book gives the fundamentals you need for modern pain practice. The second part describes all commonly used procedures, using a head-to-toe organization. The head The neck The thoracic region The thoraco-abdominal region The lumbar region The pelvic and sacral region A special chapter covers more advanced techniques such as continuous analgesia, spinal cord and sacral stimulation, vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty. Each procedure is described using a template that includes anatomy, indications, contraindications, technique and complications. Helpful hints throughout will help you refine your practice to achieve better results. Concise, straightforward, and indispensable, Pain-Relieving Procedures: The Illustrated Guide provides the most effective interventional methods for those practicing pain management.




Small Animal Anesthesia and Pain Management


Book Description

3* Doody's Review! This concise quick reference guide has been thoroughly updated in its second edition. It remains clinically focused, based on experience underpinned by published research data.With 18 brand new chapters on topics ranging from perioperative blood works and urine analysis to light therapy in pain management and rehabilitation, the book covers anesthetic equipment, monitoring, premedication, intravenous induction agents, injectable anesthetic combinations, inhalant anesthesia, anesthesia for specific diseases, fluid therapy, anesthetic emergencies and complications, acute and chronic pain management. Nine new chapters address anaesthetic considerations for different surgeries. Drug dosages and anesthetic protocols are provided in tabular form. New to this edition are chapters covering anesthesia considerations for specific conditions and diseases, including perioperative blood works and urine analysis blood transfusion medicine anesthetic considerations and interpretations rehabilitation and pain management for chronic pain patients pain management of oncologic pain and radiation therapy acupuncture and herbal medication for acute and chronic pain and low level light therapy in pain management. Containing over 300 color illustrations, Small Animal Anesthesia and Pain Management is ideal for all those who need practical information easily to hand: small animal practitioners, veterinary technicians/nurses, and veterinary students.




An Introduction to Clinical Emergency Medicine


Book Description

Fully-updated edition of this award-winning textbook, arranged by presenting complaints with full-color images throughout. For students, residents, and emergency physicians.