ORLANDO — As the country continues to face an epidemic of opioid misuse, medical schools should consider using simulation and immersive learning to teach students about the safe management of these ...

David Hupp lays out how the OPQRST mnemonic that EMS providers use to assess patient pain can be slightly rescoped to evaluate issues within an EMS agency.

The medical community has often viewed chronic pain in two different ways; as either a condition of the body or a condition of the mind. Assessing the whole patient, weighing physical impairment, ...

The Joint Commission, accreditor for thousands of U.S healthcare facilities, is revising pain “assessment and management standards” for behavioral health care, home care and nursing care center ...

Pain in patients older than 65 years of age is significantly undertreated and misunderstood. This may be based on the assumption that older patients either cannot tolerate stronger pain medications or ...

KUTV — The following information is provided by Intermountain Health. May 6-12 is National Nurses Week. During the pandemic many people recognized nurses as working at the hospital bedside and in ...

A verbal pain measure was recently introduced that is accurate in differentiating patients with low back pain from persons who simulate pain. It consists of 103 pain words. Forty-five of these pain ...

Pain assessment and management in critical care is a multifaceted challenge that encompasses both the sensory and emotional dimensions of pain. In intensive care settings, patients frequently face ...

A newly-published Cochrane review reveals significant gaps in the clinical rating scales used to assess pain in newborn babies, highlighting the urgent need for improved tools and global collaboration ...