Oligoanalgesia in ED patients with isolated extremity injury without documented fracture
This paper was presented under the same title as part of ACEP Research Forum, October 12 to 13, 2003, Boston, Mass.
Jesse M. Pines, MD, MBA
, Andrew D. Perron, MD
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Department of Emergency Medicine, Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME 04102-3175, USA
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Effective management of pain is a fundamental aspect to the humane provision of emergency care. Multiple studies have identified oligoanalgesia as a significant problem in emergency medicine [1,2]. Pain is a subjective entity that manifests differently based upon specific injury, disease process, and the patients' physiological and psychological make-up [3]. Therefore, a similar anatomic injury or disease process may produce a very different sensation of pain depending on the host.
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