Pain in the Critically ILL

Winner of the 1991 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award, this book covers the current knowledge and understanding of pain and how it is experienced by the critically ill, often in a strange environment, while receiving intensive and almost constant nursing care. Emphasis is on the most recent scientific advances in pain management and their application to critically ill patients, as well as the pain experiences of various patient populations.

Physiology of pain; psychological aspects; analgesics & nursing implications; pain in special patient populations.