Older Adults With Traumatic Rib Fractures: An Evidence-Based Approach to Their Care
Winters BA - The article provides a clinical guideline for the assessment and management of pain in older adults with traumatic rib fractures, and an approach for pain assessment, which includes the use of the numeric rating scale as well as incentive spirometry. The modalities used for pain management include epidural analgesia, paravertebral analgesia, patient controlled analgesia, and the use of oral opioids. [more...]
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