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With this new awareness of pain management in the Emergency Department, there’s a lot more interest and a lot more research being done. There’s still long ways for us to go developing actual tools that can be used in the ED setting. All the tools that are currently available are not really designed...
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Researchers at McGill University, Montreal report that a new assessment tool that gauges observable behavioral cues offers a simple and effective means to measure pain levels in critically ill patients who may be unable to communicate. The Behavior Pain Assessment Tool (BPAT) considers 8 readily...
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Pain is a component of up to 78% of ED presenting complaints yet most ED physicians have had minimal training related to pain recognition, assessment, and management. Adequate pain assessment is complex and requires time to determine the patient's past pain and medication history, current pain...
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Fierce debates rage on about chronic pain. These include the utility of chronic opioid therapy, the value proposition of multidisciplinary approaches, reimbursement related issues, risk of aberrant drug related behaviors, along with many other questions related to assessment and treatment...
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A professor and department chair of adult and gerontology nursing offers an overview of best practice recommendations for obtaining assessment information from older patients with pain. Different strategies to engage in patients with cognitive impairment vs the cognitively intact are considered...
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Why is complex regional pain syndrome so challenging? I think part of the debate is what really constitutes CRPS, because it’s really a difficult diagnosis. You can see flagrant cases of it where you’ll get some atrophy and you’ll get color changes, temperature changes. Typically diagnostic tests...
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Catastrophizing is a set of negative cognitive and emotional responses to pain that encompasses factors like feelings of helplessness when in pain. People who catastrophize feel that there’s nothing they can do about the pain that they’re having. They ruminate about pain. They can’t get thoughts of...
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Pretty much any relationship between pain and depression that you can imagine has data behind it. There is evidence that they both interact. There’s evidence that pain impedes treatment of depression. There’s evidence that depression impedes treatment of pain. They are distinct but related problems...