Pain Management

• Pain often undertreated
• Pain management helps:
  • Reduce anxiety
  • Decrease catecholamine release
  • Improve tachycardia and hypertension
  • Patient cooperation with assessment and procedures
• Opiates, especially Morphine, are most commonly used via IV or IO routes.
  • Caution:
    • Patients with multisystem trauma - may lower blood pressure in hypovolemia
    • Multiple doses may cause respiratory depression
• Dose appropriately based on weight and titrate to effect