OBJECTIVE Tonsillectomy is the most common surgery in the field of ENT. Pain is the most common post tonsillectomy complaint. Considering the importance of nursing cares in relieving post-surgery pain in general and post-tonsillectomy pain in particular, this study is conducted with the aim of presenting nursing process in post tonsillectomy pain diagnosis for decreasing loss of appropriate opp...

Last month I summarized our work to develop the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, Relieving Pain in America: A Blueprint for Transforming Prevention, Care, Education, and Research, which was released in June 2011 and is freely available at: http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2011/ Relieving-Pain-in-America-A-Blueprint-for-transformingPrevention-Care-Education-Research.aspx. What has happened since th...

practice, for the surgeon and patient alike, is the relief of pain. The challenge for surgeons is providing care for patients with chronic pain, and those at high risk of developing chronic pain, and performing pain-relieving procedures with limited evidence. The best way forward will be through improving pain education of surgeons, performing studies to establish the efficacy of the pain-relie...

A LACK OF ACCOUNTABILITY for assessing and relieving pain has been cited as a major contributor to the undertreatment of pain in hospitalized patients. The release of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations (JCAHO) pain management standards in 2001 has resulted in widespread interest in health care facilities to assess pain and implement protocols and care plans that ...

AIMS To assess the effectiveness of enucleation or evisceration in relieving pain from painful blind eyes. METHODS 24 patients with intractable ocular pain underwent enucleation or evisceration with or without an orbital implant. RESULTS Complete pain relief was achieved in all patients at an average time of 3 months (range 1-15 months). Seven patients required further medical or surgical t...