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Chapter 9. Pain Management in the ICU

Pain Management in the ICU

Topics Discussed:

epidural anesthesia; intensive care unit; pain; pain management; pain scale; patient-controlled analgesia.

Sections:

Introduction, Definitions and Terms, Techniques, Clinical Pearls and Pitfalls, Suggested Readings

Excerpt:

"Intensive care patients experience pain to varying degrees and for a variety of reasons during their intensive care unit (ICU) stay. The evolution of the discipline of pain management as well as increasingly precise knowledge about the pharmacology and physiology of pain has led to significant advances in its evaluation and treatment. Intensive care providers have a growing arsenal of tools with which to treat pain including pain management consultants, patient- controlled analgesia (PCA), epidural analgesia, opioids, and new nonsteroidal agents...."

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