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The selected policy Essence of Care 2010: Benchmarks for the Prevention and Management of Pain, includes the latest benchmarks on the management of pain and its prevention. It presents up to date reviewed views, with the aim to deliver

The peer reviewed journal article, A Decision Tree Model for Postoperative pain Management, is an article describing postoperative pain management regimens using evidence-based practice. This article’s author has created a guide for prescribers who are managing postoperative pain levels for patients. This article is using evidence-based practice to help future patients have adequate pain relief, but not have the serious ramifications that can occur from the wrong dose or wrong medication for said patient.

Despite recent advances in information regarding perioperative care, postoperative pain continues to go undermanaged. Postoperative pain is the pain patients experience after a surgical procedure. According to Gan, 80% of all people who undergo surgeries experience postoperative pain, and 75% of them rate their pain at a moderate, severe, or extreme level (as cited by Cooney, 2016). Furthermore, inadequately managed pain can lead to patient dissatisfaction, decreased patient outcomes, and overall higher cost of care (Penprase, Brunetto, Dahmani, Forthoffer & Kapoor, 2015). In order to provide higher quality pain management,

The strength of this recommendation is inconclusive. As practitioners, we should have minimum restraint in following this recommendation and should be on the lookout for new evidence in addition to strongly listening to patient preference. This recommendation is based upon three RCT’s. Two of these studies were of high strength and one was of moderate strength with regard to quality. All three of these studies had moderate applicability. In these studies, pain improvement was not consistently statistical significant (MD = .81, 95% CI -1.76, .14; MD = 2.26, p<.001; MD = -.82, 95% CI -1.247, -.39), and neither was function (MD = 3, 95% CI -1.05, 7.05; MD = 6.54, p=.001). In addition, the authors concluded the clinical significance of these findings were

Jae-Hwang Song et al. divided 336 patients undergoing foot and ankle surgery under sciatic or femoral-sciatic nerve block into treatment and control groups Based on the date of surgery. All the patients received a nerve block preoperatively. The block was established with mixture of lidocaine and ropivacaine injection. In the postanesthesia recovery room, a transdermal patch of fentanyl was applied to the chest of the patients with intravenous midazolam in the treatment group. The primary outcome measure was the difference in the number of requests for additional postoperative pain medication. The secondary outcome of interest was the degree of postoperative pain using a visual analog scale (VAS). also, complications noticed. Metoclopramide was given to nauseated patients (6).

The implementation of pain management based on the best available evidence implies the comprehensive assessment of pain with a reliable and valid assessment instrument, the application of pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions based on the findings of the evaluation, the frequent re-evaluation of pain to know the level of response to treatment. Although evidence-based pain management

The purpose of this study was to determine differences in levels of distress (as measured by self report pain scores, physiological measurements, and behavioral distress) experienced by children during venipuncture when assigned to one of four treatment groups – (Group A) positioned supine and receiving a distraction intervention during the procedure, (Group B) – positioned supine and not receiving a distraction intervention during the procedure, (Group C) positioned on the parent’s lap and receiving a distraction intervention during the procedure, (Group D) – positioned on the parent’s lap and not receiving a distraction intervention during the procedure. The impact of gender, age, and temperament on pain response were also addressed. Subject demographics will be presented as well as significant findings related to the research questions.

Doing this procedure relieved my brother's inability to relax his legs, but at the cost of being in extreme pain. The next few months were the hardest he would ever deal with. I can still envision coming home from school and hearing him scream in pain, this crushed me even at the tender age of ten. I may not of understood the severity of what was going on, but I knew that he had endured the worst of it and now was the good part, the part where he would be able to move more freely without agonizing pain. Dealing with these surgeries and the disease caused a ripple effect of how he had to be treated and taken care

According to John Hopkins Medicine (n.d.), pain is an uncomfortable feeling that tells you something may be wrong. It can be fixed, throbbing, stabbing, aching, pinching, or described in many other ways. Pain is categorized as either acute or chronic. Acute pain is usually severe and brief, and is often a signal that your body has been injured. Chronic pain can vary from mild to severe and is there for long periods of time (John Hopkins Medicine, n.d). This paper will discuss a scenario that entails which person is experiencing the most pain, how two people can have the same procedure experience different levels of pain, factors that contribute to each person’s pain level, and two complementary/alternative methods of pain control.

Practitioners feel they do not have enough options regarding treatment when considering the balance of pain relief and safety. Patient-Physician interaction time was also an issue resulting in not getting enough medical history because of time restraints. Trialing included four phases. Phase one discussed finding the right practitioner to treat the pain. Phase two was initiating the pain treatment trial. Phase three included adjusting pain treatments. Phase four included continuing to adjust treatments as patients take control over their

The synthesis of the underlying studies in that Cochrane review suggests that 1 visit of mobilization reduces VAS but there are conflicting studies demonstrating that the VAS reduction may or may not reach/exceed MCID. 2 visits of mobilization (Masaracchio et al 2013) are comparable to 1 visit in reducing VAS. 3 visits within the first week (La Touche et al 2013) appears to reduce the VAS by at least double that of 1 visit. Therefore, the number of visits (1 versus 3) may be a modifier of mobilization (dotted line) in reducing the pain (VAS) that meets/exceeds MCID (dotted line) so patients may start exercise- which in turn has been shown to improve function. As insurance approves a median of only 5 visits (Horn et al 2016), this proposal will address gaps in the literature regarding how many visits (1 versus 3) of mobilization will likely moderate the achievement of the minimum clinically important difference in pain reduction. The number of visits may be associated with baseline CPM profile (Courtney et al 2016) and these will be the research questions of the proposed

This article notes that the American Pain Society (APS) Satisfaction Survey and the variations of the APS survey utilized to assess patient satisfaction do not necessarily correlated to adequate pain management. Through a detailed analysis of an adapted APS survey from 787 post-operative patients, the researchers determined a correlation coefficient (r) of -0.24 between pain intensity and satisfaction, indicating a negative relationship between the two

Outcomes: After 27 physical therapy visits post surgeries in a period of 6 months the patient reported no perceived work disability after 52 weeks. Nonetheless, some functional disability was experienced when it came to general activities and sports between 4 to 13 percent based on the QuickDASH. Pain levels reported by the VAS remained considerable low. The subject reported the pain level between 0-4 on a 10 scale; pain decreased to zero by week 10.

Pain. Assessment of pain using VAS(visual analogue scale)and assessment of disability using Mac Gill quality of life questionnaire.

Assessing and treating pain is a complex puzzle. McCaffery a researcher from the UCLA Center for Health Science says the standard definition of pain is, “whatever the experiencing person says it is” (Bernhofer 1). However, a practitioner’s personal opinions about a patient’s pain might interfere with this definition when performing a pain assessment. Treatment of pain is different than working with a patient who has hypertension and requires increased dosages of medications to reduce blood pressure. Practitioners are not likely to judge a hypertensive patient’s character because of their medication needs. However, it is harder to have an unbiased opinion of a patient complaining of chronic pain who does not respond to the standard pain medications.