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Multimodal balanced analgesia in the critically ill
1Pain Management Educator and Consultant, Rocklin, California, USA.
Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America
|February 28, 2002
Abstract:
Pain is common but is often undertreated in critically ill patients. A multimodal balanced analgesic approach is recommended for the management of pain in these patients. Balanced analgesia uses combined analgesic regimens, thereby reducing the likelihood of significant effects from a single agent or method. It may include several different drugs given to prevent or aggressively treat continuous and breakthrough pain as well as pain from procedures.