Pain Control Pre-Transport - First Four Hours

Pain Control Pre-Transport - First Four Hours


Control of burn pain may require large amounts of analgesic.

Keep the patient comfortable with small repeated boluses of intravenous analgesics given on a PRN basis.

Morphine is the preferred drug of choice.

"Do not use the intramuscular or subcutaneous route. Changes in fluid volume and circulation make absorption of any drug given intramuscularly or subcutaneously irregular" (ABLS Provider's Manual, 1990, p.12).


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