ALLMedicine Pain Management Center

May 31st, 2020 - Patient-controlled analgesia is commonly used for adult patients requiring parenteral opioid analgesia in the postoperative setting. However, many patients are unable to use patient-controlled analgesia because of physical or cognitive limitations...

May 31st, 2020 - The purpose of this study was to use pharmacogenetics to determine the frequency of genetic variants in our total knee arthroplasty (TKA) patients that could affect postoperative pain medications. Pharmacogenetic testing evaluates patient DNA to d...

May 31st, 2020 - In migraine or primary headache in children, parents play a fundamental role in pain management. For this narrative review, PubMed, Google Scholar, and Psych Info were searched using the terms "parent headache", "mother/father headache", "parental...

May 30th, 2020 - The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify how low-income older women with disabilities perceive pain, pain management, and communication with healthcare providers. We interviewed 26 low-income women (average age 75 years; SD 7.0), elic...

May 29th, 2020 - Use of nonopioid agents for inpatient pain management of sickle cell disease.|2020|Austin Szwak J,|

Oct 21st, 2019 - Pain is one of the most common symptoms associated with cancer and its treatment, and feelings of anxiety and depression can intensify the level of pain patients experience, according to the results from a study by Galloway et al that will be pres...

Sep 10th, 2019 - The largest US pain conference for frontline clinicians interested in pain management. 120+ hours of continuing medical education presented annually.

Jun 3rd, 2019 - Many of the patients undergoing interventional procedures have daily regimens of medications including analgesics, muscle relaxants, and other drugs that can have significant additive/synergistic effects during the perioperative period. Further, m...

May 7th, 2019 - Patients with acute and chronic pain in the United States face a crisis because of significant challenges in obtaining adequate care, resulting in profound physical, emotional, and societal costs. According to the Centers for Disease Control and P...

Mar 3rd, 2019 - More than 1,500 cancer care professionals are meeting in Orlando, Florida, March 21-23, for the NCCN 2019 Annual Conference, presented by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®)—an alliance of 28 leading cancer centers. The conference o...

May 31st, 2020 - Patient-controlled analgesia is commonly used for adult patients requiring parenteral opioid analgesia in the postoperative setting. However, many patients are unable to use patient-controlled analgesia because of physical or cognitive limitations...

May 31st, 2020 - The purpose of this study was to use pharmacogenetics to determine the frequency of genetic variants in our total knee arthroplasty (TKA) patients that could affect postoperative pain medications. Pharmacogenetic testing evaluates patient DNA to d...

May 31st, 2020 - In migraine or primary headache in children, parents play a fundamental role in pain management. For this narrative review, PubMed, Google Scholar, and Psych Info were searched using the terms "parent headache", "mother/father headache", "parental...

May 30th, 2020 - The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify how low-income older women with disabilities perceive pain, pain management, and communication with healthcare providers. We interviewed 26 low-income women (average age 75 years; SD 7.0), elic...

May 29th, 2020 - Use of nonopioid agents for inpatient pain management of sickle cell disease.|2020|Austin Szwak J,|

Date Issued: November 14, 2018 Audience: Patients who have an implanted pump that delivers medicine into the spinal fluid to treat or manage pain Caregivers of these patients Health care providers who manage the care of these patients Compounders ...

Mar 26th, 2020 - Lesions or diseases of the somatosensory nervous system cause neuropathic pain. Instead of being used to sense touch, pressure, temperature, position, movement, and vibration, the patient perceives chronic or intermittent paresthesia and locally a...

Feb 27th, 2020 - The United States remains in the throes of an unprecedented opioid crisis after a dramatic surge in opioid use disorder (OUD) and overdose deaths in the past two decades. But the news isn't all bad. Guidelines on opioids in pain management have ti...

Feb 10th, 2020 - What is happening in the US with respect to opioid use is not happening in the UK, according to a UK-based expert in pain medicine, dispelling common myths about opioid use and misuse. Opioids have a valuable place in pain management, said Dr Cath...

Jan 24th, 2020 - (Reuters Health) - First-time mothers who take childbirth classes are more likely to have normal deliveries without interventions, a small study suggests. The study compared more than 300 women who gave birth to a first child at an Israeli medical...