The complex pain patient: interventional treatment and nursing issues

Barbara St Marie

doi:10.1016/S0029-6465(03)00046-X

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The complex pain patient: interventional treatment and nursing issues

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The complex pain patient: interventional treatment and nursing issues

Barbara St Marie

The Nursing clinics of North America, Vol.38(3), pp.539-554

09/01/2003

DOI: 10.1016/S0029-6465(03)00046-X

PMID: 14567208

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Abstract

This article discusses interventional treatment for the complex pain patient, including intraspinal opioid administration spinal cord stimulation, and commonly performed nerve blocks. The role of the nurse has grown to support these technological interventions, and nursing has provided a foundation to strengthen the success of these interventions through watchful monitoring and patient education.

Analgesia, Epidural - methods

Analgesia, Epidural - nursing

Complex Regional Pain Syndromes - diagnosis

Complex Regional Pain Syndromes - etiology

Complex Regional Pain Syndromes - therapy

Electric Stimulation Therapy - methods

Electric Stimulation Therapy - nursing

Humans

Monitoring, Physiologic - methods

Monitoring, Physiologic - nursing

Nerve Block - methods

Nerve Block - nursing

Nurse's Role

Nursing Assessment - methods

Pain Measurement - methods

Pain Measurement - nursing

Patient Selection

Treatment Outcome

Details

Title: Subtitle: The complex pain patient: interventional treatment and nursing issues
Creators: Barbara St Marie - Fairview Health Services
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: The Nursing clinics of North America, Vol.38(3), pp.539-554
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-6465(03)00046-X
PMID: 14567208
NLM abbreviation: Nurs Clin North Am
ISSN: 0029-6465
eISSN: 1558-1357
Language: English
Date published: 09/01/2003
Academic Unit: Addiction Medicine; Nursing; Injury Prevention Research Center
Record Identifier: 9984370650102771

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