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Practice Guideline
. 2024 Jun;35(2):198-218.
doi: 10.1177/10806032241248422. Epub 2024 Apr 23.

Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Acute Pain in Austere Environments: 2024 Update

Patrick B Fink  1 , Albert R Wheeler 3rd  2 , William R Smith  2 , Graham Brant-Zawadzki  1 , James R Lieberman  3 , Scott E McIntosh  1 , Christopher Van Tilburg  4 , Ian S Wedmore  5 , Jeremy S Windsor  6 , Ross Hofmeyr  7 , David Weber  8
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Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Acute Pain in Austere Environments: 2024 Update

Patrick B Fink et al. Wilderness Environ Med. 2024 Jun.

Abstract

The Wilderness Medical Society (WMS) convened an expert panel to develop evidence-based guidelines for the management of pain in austere environments. Recommendations are graded based on the quality of supporting evidence as defined by criteria put forth by the American College of Chest Physicians. This is an update of the 2014 version of the "WMS Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Acute Pain in Remote Environments" published in Wilderness & Environmental Medicine 2014; 25:41-49.

Keywords: Acute pain / therapy; medical; pain management / methods; societies; wilderness medicine / methods; wilderness medicine / standards.

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Declaration of Conflicting InterestsThe authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. The opinions of the authors expressed in this manuscript are their own and do not reflect official policy of the United States Army or the Department of Defense.

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