A newly-published Cochrane review reveals significant gaps in the clinical rating scales used to assess pain in newborn babies, highlighting the urgent need for improved tools and global collaboration ...

From hospitals to care homes, accurate pain assessment and documentation are critical for effective treatment and patient safety. Updated guidelines stress standardized tools, clear care plans, and ...

When buildings, land, apparatus, equipment and other assets are included as part of EMS departments, the agencies are multimillion-dollar organizations. Thus, they are businesses, and they must be ...

Pain assessment and management in critical care is a multifaceted challenge that encompasses both the sensory and emotional dimensions of pain. In intensive care settings, patients frequently face ...

Sometimes, a study on one topic can reveal important issues in another. Case in point: A recent Lancet study explored what a person’s life was like before they developed chronic pain — the diseases ...

Chronic pain was associated with a significantly increased risk for incident dementia, particularly in patients aged 60 years and older.

Infant pain assessment is challenging because infants are unable to verbalize the presence and intensity of their pain. Pain is uniquely experienced and expressed by each individual and can be ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a rare clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

The effect of continuous exposure to serotonin receptor antagonism on delayed emesis: An analysis of 1,535 patients in two randomized clinical trials with granisetron (G), APF530, and palonosetron ...

Investigators recently assessed and compared the lifetime prevalence of performance-related pain in professional musicians and in music students, and reported their findings in Pain Medicine. 1 The ...