Objectives This report presents up-to-date evidence and expert consensus-based revisions
to the ASPMN 2011 guidelines that inform interprofessional clinical decision-making for …

As the complexity of analgesic therapies increases, priorities of care must be established to
balance aggressive pain management with measures to prevent or minimize adverse events …

Opioid analgesics are commonly administered to hospitalized patients to treat acute pain,
but these drugs put patients at risk for serious adverse events, such as unintended …

Summary The ASPMN Guidelines on Monitoring for Opioid-induced Sedation and
Respiratory Depression provide evidence-based recommendations for the care of patients …

Adverse events secondary to opioid-induced advancing sedation and respiratory
depression continue to occur during hospitalizations despite efforts to increase awareness …

Excessive sedation precedes opioid-induced respiratory depression. An evidence-based
practice project standardized systematic sedation monitoring by nurses using an opioid …

BACKGROUND: Guidelines with recommendations for monitoring type and timing of
hospitalized patients for opioid-induced respiratory depression have been published, yet …

PRACTICE guidelines are systematically developed recommendations that assist the
practitioner and patient in making decisions about health care. These recommendations …

The American Society for Pain Management Nursing convened a taskforce to develop
guidelines on monitoring for opioid-induced sedation and respiratory depression. Part of the …

LIFE-THREATENING respiratory depression is the most serious of the opioid adverse
effects. To most nurses, it is one of the most frightening aspects of opioid administration …