Richard wrote:
>>My wife works in a treatment room in a general practitioners surgery,
>>Northern England. Some patients undergo dressings which can be painful.
>>
>>She has been considering the use of Entonox for pain control (50
>>percent oxygen and 50 percent nitrous oxide)
>>
>>Has anyone used this approach in a treatment room or similar
>>circumstances? She would be very grateful for any help or advice you
>>can offer. Written procedures, protocols or references to
>>literature would be most helpful
>>
Not going to be too helpful here. ;-)) Our PN was grumbling about the
workload and looking at it we found that she had taken on chronic dressings
sometimes twice weekly for sometimes months. Doesn't take many of them to
cause a time problem.
Decision made all leg ulcer dressings to be sent to ulcer clinic and then to
District Nursing. (Easy when you don't have a Doppler) All chronic dressings
to DNs direct.
Result time freed up for PN to do work that is more profitable.
Who's paying for the Entonox?? :-(( It ain't cheap.
Paul Attwood
GP Ramsgate
(Before anyone comments, what no Doppler, they are expensive)
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