OBJECTIVES: The purpose of the current study was to evaluate the effectiveness of vapocoolant for preschoolers’ immunization injection pain relief. STUDY DESIGN: 57 4to 6-year-old children were randomized to vapocoolant alone or typical care conditions. Pain was measured at baseline and at injection via self-report, caregiver-report, nurse-report, and an observational scale. RESULTS: Self-repor...

Pain is a symptom common tonumerousphysical andpsychiatric ailments andcanoftenbemanagedby treating theunderlyingcondition.However, inapproximately20millionpatients eachyear,chronicpainpersistsdespitetreatment.1,2Chronicpain is complex, heterogeneous, and poorly understood. Patientswithchronicpainexperience a decreased quality of lifeandincreasedrisk formultiplecomorbidities,costingsocietybilli...

introduction: pain is the most common complaint of patients referring to emergency department (ed). considering the importance of pain management in ed, this study aimed to investigate the efficacy and feasibility of ultrasound-guided nerve blocks in this setting. methods: 46 patients who came to the ed with injured extremities were enrolled in the study and received either femoral, axillary or...

Amaç: Bu sistematik derlemede; ‘’Hemşirelerin,Türkiye’de yapılan çalışmalarda ameliyat sonrası ağrıya ilişkin uygulamaları nelerdir?’’ sorusuna yanıt aramak amacıyla yapılmıştır.
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s The Journal of Pain S117 (564) A successful outcome using an interdisciplinary approach in the treatment of post-herpetic neuralgia: a case report J Patel and R Calisoff; Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Center for Pain Management, Chicago, IL Post-herpetic neuralgia often presents with neuropathic pain and is caused by the Varicella Zoster virus. Treatment options can include anticonvuls...

The seminal roles of cognitive, emotional, and social processes in shaping the experience of pain have been appreciated, at least to some degree, for a very long time.However, it is only in the relatively recent past that tools such as functional neuroimaging have permitted investigation of the interface between such factors and the neurobiology of pain processing. As one example, consider the ...

The b-hemoglobinopathies, namely sickle cell disease (SCD) and b-thalassemia, result fromgeneticmutations in theb-globingeneandare among themost commonmonogenic diseases in theworld. SCDresults from a nonsynonymousA toTmutation in codon 6 of theb-globin gene leading to a Glu-Val replacement, whereas b-thalassemias are caused by diverse point mutations or deletions. Treatment options are largely...

The use of opioids has a long cultural and societal history and has played a unique role in advancing both medicine and the treatment of pain. Over the last two decades or so, prescribers have compromised the role of opioids in the treatment of pain to such an extent that it has become a national crisis. Each year, opioids have been causing a record number of deaths and negatively affecting tho...

There is ongoing debate whether older adult patients with stage 5 CKD gain survival advantagewhen treated with dialysis comparedwith conservative management. Comprehensive conservative management that is chosen or medically advised (1) focuses on optimizing quality of life and is recommended by international experts in the field to include advance care planning, provision of symptom and painman...