This topic sub-chapter comprises eight core modules which when completed provide a detailed overview of the causes and consequences and management of pain in Acute Cardiovascular Care.
The aim is to improve knowledge in this important area, thereby improving patient outcomes in Acute Cardiac Care.
This content offers the learner a focused and interactive educational experience based on the ESC Textbook of Intensive and Acute Cardiovascular Care, 2nd edition 2015 - by H. Laycock and S. Jaggar.
What’s inside?
9 courses on:
- Introduction
- Pain physiology
- Causes of Pain in Acute Cardiac Care
- Consequences of pain
- Pain assessments
- Principles of Acute Pain Management
- Pain in Special Circumstances
- Local anaesthetics
- Patient safety issues in pain management
Each course ends with a MCQs test.
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Contributors
Course Co-ordinator
- Dr Susanna Price
Course Contributors
- Dr Helen Laycock
- Dr Sian Jaggar
Our mission: To reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease.