A patient with extensive burns is undergoing skin grafting.The nurse understands pain control is best achieved with what strategies during the early phase of recovery?

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Initially after burn injury,narcotics are administered intravenously in small doses and titrated to effect.The constant background pain may be addressed with the use of a patient-controlled analgesia device.When hemodynamic stability has occurred and gastrointestinal function has returned,oral narcotics can be useful.Intramuscular or subcutaneous injections must not be administered because absorption by these routes is unpredictable because of the fluid shifts that occur with burn injury.

A Patient with Extensive Burns Is Undergoing Skin Grafting