Pain management is one of the core tasks that a healthcare expert must address when tending to the needs of patients with severe impairments. However, for the demographic that has been suffering from chemical dependency, the introduction of pain management medications may imply the threat of a relapse (Rosenthal & Burchum, 2021). Therefore, to ensure that patients are offered the relevant pain management techniques. Furthermore, additional patient factors such as allergies and lung conditions will have to be considered. In turn, in the scenario at hand, the use of general anesthesia appears to be reasonable, given the fact that it will prevent him from being subjected to another risk factor that may lead to relapse (Beaulieu, 2017).
Nevertheless, given the low pharmacokinetics, additional options for sedating the patient to ensure that the procedure will be entirely painless should be considered. In turn, discussing the options with the patient appears to be ethically and medically sensible, given the vital information that the patient may provide. However, if the patient had a comorbid condition such as heart failure, the use of strong pain management medications would be required to avoid a cardiac arrest due to painful experiences (Misra et al., 2020).
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