Analgesia for the Surgical Patient

Analgesia for the Surgical Patient is an article written by Anita Parkin RVN, AVN, Dip (Surgery & ECC), VTS (Anesthesia /Analgesia), CVPP.

It covers the pain pathway, signs of pain, types of analgesics, adverse effects of analgesics, agonist, agonist-antagonist, partial agonists, antagonists, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, local anaesthetics, NMDA antagonists, alpha adrenergic agonists, monitoring of patients and pain scales.

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