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Optimizing Perioperative Pain Management
Author(s) -
Arnstein Paul
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
aorn journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1878-0369
pISSN - 0001-2092
DOI - 10.1016/s0001-2092(06)61034-x
Subject(s) - pain management , specialty , perioperative , medicine , perioperative nursing , neuroplasticity , physical therapy , intensive care medicine , anesthesia , psychiatry
All nurses, regardless of specialty or practice setting, must provide effective measures to relieve their patients' pain. Uncontrolled pain can result in negative consequences, such as impaired cardiac functioning and neuroplastic changes in the spine and brain. This article discusses the problem of uncontrolled pain and perioperative nurses' role in relieving pain, including assessing pain and providing pharmacological and nonpharmacological relief. AORN J 76 (Nov 2002) 812–818.