Intranasal Medication Administration
- 6 pages (please refer to pages 8-13)
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Clinical Practice Guideline from ENA: Intranasal Medication Administration. How effective is the intranasal medication administration route for emergency care patients?
(please refer to pages 8-13)
ABSTRACT: This project sought to develop evidence-based guidelines for the administration of analgesics for moderate to severe pain by Emergency Medical Services (EMS) clinicians based on a separate, previously published, systematic review of the comparative effectiveness of analgesics in the prehospital setting prepared by the University of Connecticut Evidence-Based Practice Center for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). A technical expert panel (TEP) was assembled consisting of subject matter experts in prehospital and emergency care, and the development of evidence-based guidelines and patient care guidelines. A series of nine “patient/population-intervention-comparison-outcome” (PICO) questions were developed based on the Key Questions identified in the AHRQ systematic review, and an additional PICO question was developed to specifically address analgesia in pediatric patients.....
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