What is it about?
In patients with serious illness or trauma, reduction of severe pain is a key therapeutic goal of emergency medical service (EMS) teams. During this project, we assessed the administration of the opioid analgesics morphine and fentanyl by specially trained paramedics with regard to analgesia quality and patient safety.
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Why is it important?
The results of this study indicate that the administration of opioid analgesics by specially trained and qualified paramedics is safe and effective.
Perspectives
Our results may help other emergency medical service areas defining and establishing protocols of treatment of patients with severe pain, when an emergency physician is not available.
Maximilian Scharonow
Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care, Emergency Medicine and Pain Therapy, St Josefs-Hospital, Cloppenburg
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This page is a summary of: Project for the introduction of prehospital analgesia with fentanyl and morphine administered by specially trained paramedics in a rural service area in Germany, Journal of Pain Research, November 2017, Dove Medical Press,
DOI: 10.2147/jpr.s151077.
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