Paralyzed with pain: the need for education.
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.
Loper
Keith A
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Clinical Pain Service, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 U.S.A.
Butler
Steven
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Nessly
Michael
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Wild
Lorie
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D000700:Analgesics; D014151:Anti-Anxiety Agents; D001569:Benzodiazepines / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D006801:Humans; D009466:Neuromuscular Blocking Agents / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D010146:Pain / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000193:education* / Q000503:physiopathology; D010243:Paralysis / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000503:physiopathology; D012121:Respiration, Artificial
D000700:Analgesics; D014151:Anti-Anxiety Agents; D009466:Neuromuscular Blocking Agents; D001569:Benzodiazepines