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Pain Management | May 18th 2023

Date of Presentation: May 18, 2023

Type: Past Presentation  

Audience: Clinical  

Program: Emergency Medical Services  

Keywords: #pain  #pain managment  

Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage. In this presentation, Dr. Christian Garcia discusses how to define and assess pain, how to recognize key features to document and assess w/ regards to pain, discuss the primary modalities of pain control in the prehospital setting, and discuss disparities in treatment of in the prehospital setting.

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Christian Mateo Garcia, MD

Christian Mateo Garcia, MD, is originally from New Mexico and still calls it his home. Mateo started as an EMT-Basic in a rural fire department setting. He eventually attained his EMT-Intermediate and worked in a Wildland fire setting. Mateo attained his medical degree from the University of New Mexico. He at is faculty at UNM within the Department of Emergency Medicine and Division of Prehospital, Austere and Disaster Medicine. Mateo has a passion for EMS education and his biggest interest within EMS is medical direction and system building in rural and Tribal settings.

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Date added: May 18, 2023