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Nurse-Administered Analgesic Treatment in Italian Emergency Medical Services: A Nationwide Survey
Author(s) -
Guglielmo Imbrìaco,
Riccardo Rondelli,
Federica Maroni,
Selene Mazzolani,
Silvia Sasso,
Stefano Sebastiani,
Boaz Gedaliahu Samolsky Dekel
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of pain research
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.888
H-Index - 49
ISSN - 1178-7090
DOI - 10.2147/jpr.s303998
Subject(s) - medicine , context (archaeology) , emergency medical services , descriptive statistics , medical emergency , emergency medicine , paleontology , statistics , mathematics , biology
Acute pain is common among patients requiring assistance from prehospital emergency medical services (EMS). Nonetheless, the undertreatment of pain in this context remains a frequent phenomenon. Timely and effective analgesia is a crucial feature in emergency medicine. To ensure analgesia provision, prehospital paramedics and nurses can administer analgesics via standard operating protocols or under a physician's remote supervision. Information about such protocols in Italian EMS is lacking.

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