Pain Management, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America

In this issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics, guest editor Lynn C.

Parsons of Morehead State University brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Pain Management.

Top experts provide up-to-date clinical information and best practices needed for critical care nurses to provide safer and more effective options for pain control.

Clinical reviews include topics on chronic post-surgical pain, managing pain in the era of opioid abuse, as well pain management in children, older adults, and orthopedic patients.

• Contains 15 relevant, practice-oriented topics including pediatric pain management approaches for critical care nurses; using simulation to illustrate pain the critically ill; managing pain in an era of opioid addiction; managing chronic pain for ventilated critical care patients; chronic post-surgical pain; and more
• Provides in-depth clinical reviews on pain management, offering actionable insights for clinical practice
• Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field.

  Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews