Racial and ethnic disparities exist in ER pain management for children with...
Pediatric researchers have found race- and ethnicity-based disparities in pain management and length of stay among children who came to hospital emergency departments for treatment of abdominal pain. A...
View ArticleLyrica may ease pain for depressed fibromyalgia patients
(HealthDay)—Fibromyalgia and depression often go hand in hand, and a new study finds that the drug Lyrica helps ease pain in patients being treated for both conditions.
View ArticleAAPM: Post-op pain highly influential in patient satisfaction
(HealthDay)—Postsurgical pain scores are strongly linked to patient satisfaction during hospitalization, according to research presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Pain Medicine,...
View ArticlePain keeps surgery patients awake, extends hospital stay
Pain can make it difficult for some patients to get a good night's rest while recovering in the hospital following certain surgical procedures, often resulting in longer hospital stays, according to...
View ArticleExercise eases arthralgia caused by aromatase inhibitors
(HealthDay)—Exercise helps relieve aromatase inhibitor (AI)-induced pain in breast cancer survivors, according to research published online Dec. 1 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
View ArticleAn alternative for pain control after knee replacement surgery
It's estimated that more than half of adults in the United States diagnosed with knee osteoarthritis will undergo knee replacement surgery. While improvements in implantable devices and surgical...
View ArticleBotulinum toxin-A beneficial in painful diabetic neuropathy
(HealthDay)—Botulinum toxin-A (BTX-A) appears to be beneficial for painful diabetic neuropathy (PDN), according to a meta-analysis published online March 20 in Pain Medicine.
View ArticleHow to manage pain in the ER: Ask the patient
Simply asking the question, "Do you want more pain medication?" resulted in satisfactory pain control in 99 percent of emergency department patients participating in a study. The study of a new...
View ArticleNo lasting value for minimally invasive lumbar laminotomy
(HealthDay)—For patients with neural foraminal or lateral recess stenosis with unilateral leg neurogenic symptoms (NS), a minimally invasive surgical (MIS) approach offers no advantage over an open...
View ArticleArabs or Jews, children who need pain relief in the ER get it
Children with broken bones or joint dislocations in northern Israel emergency departments received equal pain treatment, regardless of their ethnicity or the ethnicity of the nurses who treated them,...
View ArticleEmpathy for others' pain rooted in cognition rather than sensation
The ability to understand and empathize with others' pain is grounded in cognitive neural processes rather than sensory ones, according to the results of a new study led by University of Colorado...
View ArticleStellate ganglion block beneficial in postherpetic neuralgia
(HealthDay)—The therapeutic benefit of stellate ganglion block for debilitating photophobia secondary to trigeminal postherpetic neuralgia has been described in a case report published online July 5 in...
View ArticlePregabalin significantly improves neuropathic pain
(HealthDay)—Pregabalin significantly improves neuropathic pain, irrespective of the time since pain onset, according to a study published online Sept. 2 in Pain Practice.
View ArticleHigh-frequency spinal cord stimulation provides better results in chronic...
For patients with severe, chronic back and leg pain, a new high-frequency spinal cord stimulation (SCS) technique provides superior clinical outcomes, compared to conventional low-frequency SCS,...
View ArticleNaproxen sodium doesn't reduce pain with IUD insertion
(HealthDay)—For patients undergoing intrauterine device (IUD) insertion, oral naproxen sodium does not reduce pain on insertion, but does reduce pain after insertion, according to a study published in...
View ArticleUVA slashes opioid use while improving pain scores, study finds
A study of more than 100,000 surgical cases at University of Virginia Health System found patients' pain scores improved even as doctors gave fewer opioids.
View ArticleVirtual reality therapy helps decrease pain in hospitalized patients
Virtual reality therapy is effective in significantly reducing pain for hospitalized patients, according to a new Cedars-Sinai study.
View ArticleNew tool uses behavioral cues to assess pain in ICU patients who can't...
A new Behavior Pain Assessment Tool (BPAT) provides a simple way to evaluate pain in critically ill patients—including those who aren't able to communicate their pain verbally, reports a study in PAIN,...
View ArticleMethadone may reduce need for opioids after surgery
Patients undergoing spinal fusion surgery who are treated with methadone during the procedure require significantly less intravenous and oral opioids to manage postoperative pain, reports a new study...
View ArticleUsing HEART score to risk stratify patients with chest pain is safe but...
It is safe for physicians to use the HEART (History, ECG, Age, Risk factors, and initial Troponin) score to make decisions about admission, observation, or discharge in patients presenting to the...
View ArticleWorse pain outcomes after knee replacement for patients who took opioids...
Six months after knee replacement surgery, pain outcomes were not as good for patients who previously took prescription opioids, according to a study in the May 17 issue of The Journal of Bone &...
View ArticleOlder patients have a higher pain tolerance after major surgery—or do they?
New research presented at this year's Euroanaesthesia meeting in Geneva (3-5 June) suggests that age plays a part in the level of pain experienced after major surgery, with older people most likely to...
View ArticlePatient-controlled analgesia reduces pain at higher cost
(HealthDay)—For patients presenting to the emergency department in pain, who are subsequently admitted to the hospital, the cost per hour in moderate or severe pain averted is higher for...
View ArticleTwo-step irradiance better for condyloma acuminatum
(HealthDay)—For patients with condyloma acuminatum (CA), a two-step irradiance schedule is associated with a significantly greater reduction in pain during treatment than single-dose cold compress,...
View ArticlePost-op pain may often be underrated by inpatient staff
(HealthDay)—Postoperative pain is frequently underrated when assessed by nursing staff on wards, according to a study published online July 14 in PAIN Practice.
View ArticleHysteroscopy, endometrial biopsy order has no effect on pain
(HealthDay)—The order of successive office hysteroscopy and endometrial biopsy for evaluation of abnormal uterine bleeding does not impact the global pain perception or time required, according to a...
View ArticleStudy shows epidurals don't slow labor
Epidural analgesia - a mix of anesthetics and narcotics delivered by catheter placed close to the nerves of the spine - is the most effective method of labor pain relief. In widespread use since the...
View ArticleNoninvasive procedure is superior to steroid injection for painful knee...
For patients with osteoarthritis of the knee, a minimally invasive procedure called cooled radiofrequency ablation (CRFA) provides better pain reduction and functional improvement compared to steroid...
View ArticlePatients use about half of opioids prescribed after hysterectomy
(HealthDay)—Gynecologists prescribe about twice the amount of opioids than patients use after hysterectomy for benign, nonobstetric indications, according to a study published online Nov. 7 in...
View ArticleBehavior not indicative of pain in stressed babies
In stressed newborn babies, behaviour alone is not a reliable way of assessing pain, according to new UCL and UCLH research.
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