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1McMaster University Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine Hamilton Canada.
Abstract:
This review article provides an overview of acute pain management. It highlights the need to provide balanced pain care while limiting harm from opioids as per the World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations for balanced pain care. Opiophobia and its impact on the use of opioids for acute severe pain are discussed. Interventions that can improve global pain care and the role of pain scales in the management of acute pain are discussed. Newer trends in acute pain management in the emergency department (ED) are also reviewed and include: low dose ketamine, intravenous lidocaine, ultra-sound guided regional anesthesia, intravenous paracetamol, and patient controlled analgesia.
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