Articles: analgesics.
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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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Low back pain (LBP) is a complex condition that is widespread among older Black adults. Nonpharmacologic interventions are recommended as first-line therapy, but their use in practice is limited, possibly due to misunderstanding of their analgesic characteristics. ⋯ Listening to preferred music for 20 minutes twice a day is a feasible and acceptable intervention that can considerably reduce pain in older Black adults with LBP.