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Question for the group. I recently attended a
conference and spoke to a flight RN from another program regarding sedation and
analgesia for intubated and non intubated patients. I was very surprised to
learn that in her program they are not allowed to give analgesia to their
intubated patients just sedation. The scenario she gave me was a MVC large
amount of trauma -head face chest. RSI intubation and on the flight home with
stable vitals no pain meds. They also don't give pain meds to unintubated
trauma patients. I was wondering where the rest of you stand on this with
your programs. I asked if she would mind if I listed this post and she was OK
with it as long as no names were involved. We routinely give pain meds to
anybody in pain regardless of the disease at hand. I do realize the trauma
team likes a good neuro assessment but pain is pain. Also I checked with
numerous anesthesia practitioners who all stated that they give narcotics
as well as sedation to any intubated patient.
Thanks for your time
Brent
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