Knowledge Base

Acute Pain Management

Knowledge Base

title: "Acute Pain Management"

Acute Pain Management

Key Facts

Acute pain is best managed with multimodal analgesia (e.g., paracetamol ± NSAID ± local/regional anaesthesia) with opioids for breakthrough pain.

For severe pain, IV morphine can be titrated in small boluses (e.g., 2 mg every 5 minutes) to effect with close monitoring.

Source: Therapeutic Guidelines (eTG) Acute Pain / local ED analgesia protocol.

Overview

This article covers Pain assessment, WHO ladder, Multimodal analgesia.

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Pain assessment

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WHO ladder

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Multimodal analgesia

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Sources

  • CC Bible

Related Topics

See also: Opioid Toxicity & Overdose, Procedural Sedation