Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses
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Pediatric patients frequently present to emergency departments in pain. ⋯ Both medical emergency teams and parents administered prehospital analgesia insufficiently and without previous assessment. However, medical emergency teams used medications more often than parents. Analgesic therapy used in the emergency department resulted in significant pain reduction.
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Physical activity's established health benefits include pain control, yet there is no consensus on the required dosage according to the literature. ⋯ The perception of health in people who are limited in their daily activities due to pain (moderate to very much) is mediated by the amount of physical activity they perform. Besides, this perception is moderated by age, up to 76 years.
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Preoperative assessment of pain fear could provide essential information for improving perioperative care and could be the first step toward targeted pain management. ⋯ In this research, findings demonstrated that as the patients' pain fear increased, postoperative pain severity and amount of analgesia increased. Providing pain management with analgesics increases comfort in patients, but it may cause secondary problems in patients who use high-dose analgesics. Therefore, reducing pain fear, which is one of the main factors in pain, is essential in pain management.
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Review
Validity and Reliability of Pain and Behavioral Scales for Preterm Infants: A Systematic Review.
To systematically review the instruments used to assess behavior, stress, and/or pain in preterm newborns in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and verify the validity and reliability of these instruments. ⋯ Considering the assessments of inter-rater reliability, internal consistency, and quality of scales by COSMIN, the BIPP, and PIPP-R, were the scales considered appropriate.
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Previous studies have reported an association between hypertension (HTN) and osteoarthritis (OA). However, limited research has examined the association between HTN and symptoms, such as pain severity, in people with OA. Therefore, the aim was to investigate the prevalence of HTN in individuals with OA and the association between HTN and pain severity in this population. ⋯ Hypertension is prevalent in individuals with OA and is significantly associated with pain severity in this population. Future research should consider the effect of HTN control and medication on symptoms in people with OA. Clinicians may implement screening for HTN among individuals with OA because of the association between HTN and symptoms, such as pain, in this population.