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Paralyzed with pain: the need for education
Keith A Loper1, Steven Butler, Michael Nessly
1Clinical Pain Service, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 U.S.A.
Pain
|June 1, 1989
Abstract:
This report surveyed the pharmacologic knowledge of the physician housestaff and intensive care nurses regarding the analgesic and anxiolytic effects of narcotics, benzodiazepines and neuromuscular blockers. The results demonstrated a commonly held misconception that muscular paralysis is a calm and painless state. The authors instituted an educational program stressing the need for analgesic and anxiolytic medications in conjunction with paralytic agents.