Pain management in the acute care setting involves many of the same agents used in other settings, but in addition, hospitalized patients may require IV medications, local and regional anesthetics, and other advanced techniques like patient controlled analgesia.
Learning objectives:
1) Perform a comprehensive pain assessment in the acute care setting
2) Select an appropriate analgesic regimen given a patient scenario in the acute care setting
3) Discuss opioid conversion strategies in the acute care setting
4) Describe the indications, rationale, and components of patient controlled analgesia
5) Describe the concept of regional anesthesia