Pain Management in Trauma

Bhavana Yalamuru; Tejinder S. Swaran Singh; Peter Lax

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-83628-3_13

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Pain Management in Trauma

Bhavana Yalamuru, Tejinder S. Swaran Singh and Peter Lax

Textbook of Acute Trauma Care, pp.243-272

Springer International Publishing

01/05/2022

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-83628-3_13

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Abstract

This chapter discusses the need as well as the challenges in providing appropriate analgesia to the trauma patient; including special considerations in assessment, choice of analgesia and routes of administration. We discuss in addition to opioid and non opioid analgesics, neuropathic medications used in the setting of trauma. Regional anaesthetic options and techniques are described as well as options for truncal analgesia in a patient with thoracic trauma. While the incidence of chronic pain after polytrauma and burns is high, the chapter reviews the risks factors that are predictive of this.

Chronic pain after trauma

Compartment syndrome

LAST

Neuropathic pain medications

Opioid and non-opioid analgesics

Regional anaesthesia

Thoracic trauma analgesia

Trauma analgesia

WHO analgesic ladder

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Title: Subtitle: Pain Management in Trauma
Creators: Bhavana Yalamuru - Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Group, Worcester, USA
Tejinder S. Swaran Singh
Peter Lax - AIR
Resource Type: Book chapter
Publication Details: Textbook of Acute Trauma Care, pp.243-272
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-83628-3_13
Publisher: Springer International Publishing; Cham
Language: English
Date published: 01/05/2022
Academic Unit: Anesthesia
Record Identifier: 9984295909002771

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