Pain management: nurses in jeopardy.
Knowledge of pain physiology, assessment, treatment, and management has grown exponentially since the advent of aspirin in the United States in 1899. A quick Internet search on Google[TM] in February 2008 revealed some staggering numbers. * Pain in the search engine pulls 200,000,000 hits. *...

American Pain Society Accepting Applications for Clinical Centers of Excellence in Pain Management Awards.
Honoring Innovative U.S. Pain Care Programs GLENVIEW, Ill., Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Again next year, the American Pain Society (APS), http://www.ampainsoc.org/, will honor the country's outstanding pain care programs in its acclaimed Clinical Centers of Excellence in Pain Management Awards Program. APS is accepting awards submissions until...

Ernst E, Pittler M, Wider B. Complementary Therapies for Pain Management: An Evidence-Based Approach.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ernst E, Pittler M, Wider B. Complementary Therapies for Pain Management: An Evidence-Based Approach. Oxford: Mosby, 2007. ISBN 978-0723-434-009. $95. Available from Elsevier Australia, telephone (02) 9517 8999 or www.elsevier.com.au. This book provides evidence-based information about complementary therapies and their role in managing...

Shortwave diathermy in the management of chronic pelvic inflammatory disease pain: case reports.
ABSTRACT The purpose of this case study was to determine the therapeutic effect of Short Wave Diathermy (SWD) in the symptomatic management of chronic Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID) pain. Three cases of chronic PID .were referred from the Obstetric and Gynaecology department of Murtala Muhammed Specialist Hospital...

When medication is not enough: nonpharmacologic management of pain.
Patients with cancer commonly experience pain, which typically is controlled pharmacologically. Despite advances in pain management, pain continues to be undertreated. Nonpharmacologic measures may effectively manage pain but often are overlooked or underused. Nurses who are familiar with simple, noninvasive, nonpharmacologic measures, such as patient positioning, thermal measures, massage...

American Pain Society announces recipients of Clinical Centers of Excellence in Pain Management Awards.
The American Pain Society (APS) announced the recipients of its second annual Clinical Centers of Excellence (CCOE) in Pain Management Awards, recognizing the nation's outstanding pain care centers. Six multidisciplinary pain programs were recognized, including the Richard Barrett Pain Management Center at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH;...

Can the development of pain management units be justified in an emerging democracy?
Inadequate pain management results in unnecessary human suffering. South Africa, a developing country with both First-World and (largely) Third-World socio-economic circumstances, has transformed with the transition to democracy. Health resources are limited and directed at catering for a growing population where life-threatening conditions like HIV/AIDS, violent crime and poverty...

Pain management market set for steady growth.
Pain may be inevitable for all of us at some point, but suffering is optional, thanks to modern-day advancements in the pain management market. And as the population ages, often bringing forth with it a host of painful ailments, this segment in the medical device industry will only keep...

Leave pain management to the experts.
I respectfully but strongly disagree with Dr. Bill H. McCarberg's commentary ("Chronic Pain Management Belongs in Primary Care" May 1, 2007, p. 11). I work now with a pain management team and they, not I, handle the narcotic prescription writing--prescribing that could otherwise put me in jeopardy...

New Guidelines for Prescribing Opioid Pain Drugs Published.
GLENVIEW, Ill., Feb. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- A prestigious panel of pain-management experts representing the American Pain Society (APS) http://www.ampainsoc.org/ and the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) has published the first comprehensive clinical practice guideline to assist clinicians in prescribing potent opioid pain medications for patients with chronic non-cancer...