
Pain is one of the commonest symptoms in patients presenting to ambulance services and most common symptom in the prehospital setting; however, timely management of pain in patients continues to be suboptimal. Control of pain is important not only for humanitarian reasons but also because it may prevent deterioration of the patient and allow better assessment. There is no reason to delay relief of pain because of uncertainty with the definitive diagnosis. It does not affect later diagnostic efficacy and that time to pain relief is reduced by pre-hospital administration of pharmacological and non-pharmacological. Prior research has documented the inadequacy of pain management for patients in the prehospital setting; earlier research has archived the insufficiency of pain administration for patients in the prehospital setting.
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