Pain management and sedation : emergency department management

Pain is the chief complaint of 50 per cent of all emergency room visits.

The audience of this work includes 23,000 emergency medicine physicians; 4,500 emergency medicine residents; 15,000 urgent care centers; and, 4,000 emergency departments.

The procedures and techniques covered include: nerve blocks, local anesthesia, conscious sedation, and regional anesthesia.

The topics covered include: details on drug therapeutics, regulations, drug-seeking patients, legal aspects of pain management and sedation, and much more Drug and dosage tables throughout.

It also features chapters on the treatment of pediatric and geriatric pain.