Symptoms And Treatment Of Pain Management

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

Recognizing that the prevention of chronic disease and promoting population health is the key to controlling health care expenditure, the inclusion of pain management is a positive aspect of the legislation. While chronic pain is not in the top leading chronic diseases, the cost to the health care system is higher than heart disease and diabetes combined.2 This paper will discuss Title IV - Prevention of Chronic Disease and Improving Public Health. Subsection D - Support for Prevention and Public Health Innovation of the PPACA, including the funding of the United States Department of Health and Humans Services (HHS) for research in public health services and the examination of best prevention practices. One focus of this part of this provision is research and evaluation of pain management, the assessment, and treatment standards through an Institute of Medicine Conference on Pain Care.3

The first 48 hours of pain analysis and treating the pain of the patient to the hospice (or end-of-life patient in any other stetting) are crucial. However, the patient may be unable to speak and articulate his pain, or may be able to inadequately express the symptoms. One of the major concerns for those who are at the end of life is

In the United States, over 50 million people suffer from chronic pain. The annual cost of chronic pain is around $100 billion. Moreover, 46% of the people suffering from chronic pain lack adequate pain relief (http://www.painfoundation.org/painful.htm).

Many of Americans have been diagnosed with chronic pain. In fact according to the Institute of Medicine 116 million United States adults live with chronic pain. The majority of these adults do not seem to receive the adequate treatment needed to help them to cope or to treat their pain. This is primarily due to the physicians not being able to efficiently diagnose their patients, and or the physicians lack the knowledge of the best ways to help manage the pain their patients are experiencing. This is why most people believe that Physicians are the main cause for the rise of prescription drug abuse (Garcia, 2013).

Pain management is an essential component to patient care and nursing procedures. Recognizing the detrimental effects of unrelieved pain, The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JACHO) has recommended standards of pain management, especially with regard to assessment, monitoring and treatment (Harsoor, 2011). Research shows pain too often goes untreated, undertreated, or poorly assessed. In some settings, it has been found that pain has gone undertreated in up to 80% of patients (Walid et al, 2008). Children, the elderly, cancer patients, and postoperative patients are all populations that are at an increased risk for pain and subsequently poor pain management. Pain has a significant effect on a person’s mental status,

Healthcare practitioners have been increasing the usage of pain medications over the years. It is guaranteed that some types of pain medications exist in your medicine cabinet. Today, the problems associated by abusing these medications have brought many American families into trouble and corruption. Not all kinds of pain medications are made equal, they vary from over-the-counter strength to prescription strength. Another factor that plays in the outcome of drug dependency is also the duration of being on the medication. Everyone respond to pain medications differently, thus careful consideration must be made before prescribing such drugs. Healthcare practitioners must consider the appropriate types, strength,

Joshi, G., & Kehlet, H. (2013). Procedure-specific Pain Management: The Road to Improve Postsurgical Pain Management?. Anesthesiology, 118(4), 780-782.

Chronic pain sufferers number more than 1.5 billion individuals throughout the globe, and one-third of people in the United States, around 100 million, live in a state of chronic pain. Often their conditions do not seem as urgent or serious to others as do cancer or other potentially fatal illnesses. People with chronic pain may not show visible symptoms and their suffering is often silent, or attributed to other causes. Nevertheless, according to the Institute of Medicine, the cost of chronic pain just in the United States goes far beyond the individual suffering of its victims; in 2011, it estimated that medication and

The goal as health care providers is to promote wellness and help a patient to an optimal level of functioning. However, for a patient to receive their optimal level of functioning the pain should also stay at a consistently favorable level for the individual patient. Pain management is a major component of a patients well-being.

Within this essay I plan to discuss: one current view of path physiology of pain, two ages appropriate pain tools for babies and toddlers and will also be exploring the nursing management of acute pain experience in babies and toddlers, including a strategy for ensuring the safe delivery of care.

Pain can strike at any time and does not care about your age, gender, race, etc. It often shoves sufferers to look for relief from many different sources including clinics, hospitals, physicians, among others. Pain can be acute (such as pain from a specific injury or surgery) or chronic. Chronic pain is considered persistent over time and is divided into two groups: cancer-related or non-cancer related. Evaluating how medical staff treat chronic pain in clinic and hospital settings is becoming more and more important as it not only affects patient outcomes and satisfaction surveys, it can now adversely affect the funding stream of a clinic or hospital.

What is pain, pain is an intensive feeling we feel when something distressing is happening to our body. Pain management is how we treat the pain that we feel in our body. In today hospitals care of patients the staff is becoming more judgmental toward patients with pain problems instead of treating the condition. Nurses and doctors are supposed to make patients feel comfortable about their treatments and not feeling like they are being judge for asking for pain medication. Being in pain and having to come to the hospital patients are vulnerable, and the last thing a patient wants is to be turn away because the staff doesn’t believe what is going on.

Pain is one of the most common reasons a person will seek treatment from a physical therapist.1 Pain is an abstract concept in which the brain detects a stimuli, interprets the sensation, and responds to the stimuli by producing an unpleasant sensory response.1 Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), which is a common diagnosis seen in patients’ seeking acute or chronic pain relief, is an often debilitating condition that occurs either spontaneously or after limb injury (CRPS Type 1) or following a peripheral nerve lesion (CRPS Type 2).3,4 Several diagnostic terms have been used to classify this condition, including reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) and causalgia.4 However, the exact pathophysiologic mechanism of the condition is still unknown.5 It is believed that CRPS involves multiple pathways and includes both peripheral and central nervous system changes.3,5 Alterations in cutaneous innervations and peripheral and central sensitization, as well as changes in the representation of the affected limb within the somatosensory cortex, are currently believed to be the primary culprits in the development of CRPS.5

One late night I arrived home from a long day of work. I sluggishly went up to my room getting ready to settle for the night, when I noticed that I had an appalling headache. I removed my contact lenses and dropped them in the solution. Thinking that it was just a sinus headache I shook it off. I woke up the next morning with my eye swollen and blood shot as if I contracted the pink eye. I then dropped eye drops in my eyes and proceeded with my day hoping my eye would get better. My eye later continued to get worse the pain became excruciating and intolerable.