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The Management of Pain

Drugs, 1986
Pain is a complex phenomenon involving both neurophysiological and psychological components. Pathophysiological mechanisms involve neural pathways, and a variety of pain-producing substances and modulating mechanisms. These include acetylcholine, serotonin, histamine, bradykinin, prostaglandins, substance P, somatostatin, cholecystokinin, vasoactive ...
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Pain Management

Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America, 1990
Postoperative pain management in the critically ill patient is a challenge for nurses. Knowing the basis of pain transmission and mechanisms of action of interventions can assist the critical care nurse in making clinical decisions regarding pain control for individual patients.
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Pain Management

Nursing Clinics of North America, 1991
Patients with pain are not a new phenomena. For centuries, the incidence of pain has been well-documented. Responsibility for pain management has not been a universal priority for health care providers; however, pain management must be considered an integral part of the nursing role.
J, Slack, M, Faut-Callahan
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THE MANAGEMENT OF PAIN

The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 1954
Volume I Part 1 Basic consideration of pain - introduction fundamental considerations basic aspects clinical aspects. Part 2 consideration of relatively generalized pain syndromes - introduction: acute and chronic pain syndromes (CPS) of primarily neuropathic pain chronic pain syndromes of psychologic/psychosocial origin pain primarily of ...
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Pain management

Emergency Nurse, 2014
Pain management in emergency departments (EDs) is often inadequate because analgesia is delayed or insufficient.
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Pain and Pain Management

1997
The treatment of pain in the elderly patient presents many challenges: their pain syndromes are often due to chronic diseases that are not curable; the metabolic and pharmacodynamic changes that accompany aging complicate the prescribing of analgesics; cognitive dysfunction confounds pain assessment; functional ability may be impaired; and psychosocial
Kathleen M. Foley, David J. Hewitt
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Pain Management

Anesthesiology Clinics of North America, 2006
This article provides information regarding treatments for the management of moderate to severe pain in patients who are at the end of life. Discussion focuses on the use of strong opioids and adjuvant analgesics. Special attention also is given to the most frequently used forms of interventional pain management.
Mario, De Pinto   +2 more
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Pain and pain management

1998
Pain is an unpleasant subjective experience generally associated with tissue damage. Some of the definitions given below could apply to all sorts of unpleasant experience, and there is little in the words themselves to make it clear quite what is involved. It is only by talking with others about experiences and finding that same word — ‘pain’ — is used
Barbara Bromley, Bridget Adams
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Pain and Pain Management

1990
The principles of pain management1 are similar for young and old patients (Table 45.1). However, the geriatric population is more likely to experience a number of specific pain problems. Treatment also must be tailored to the elderly patient due to differences in sensitivities to many analgesic agents.
Richard Payne, Gavril W. Pasternak
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Management of painful neuropathies

2013
Neuropathic pain is the most common type of pain in neuropathy. In painful polyneuropathies the pain usually has a "glove and stocking" distribution. The pain may be predominantly spontaneous, e.g., with a burning, pricking, or shooting character or characterized by evoked pain such as mechanical or cold allodynia.
Finnerup, Nanna Brix   +2 more
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