Summary Background Emergency Department pain management is an often overlooked
aspect of acute care and is of paramount importance. Patients are often forced to wait …

Objective. To review the literature addressing effective care for acute pain in inpatients on
medical wards. Methods. We searched Medline, PubMed Clinical Queries, and the …

Objectives: Oligoanalgesia for acute abdominal pain historically has been attributed to the
provider's fear of masking serious underlying pathology. The authors assessed whether a …

Pain is the most common reason people visit emergency rooms. Pain does not discriminate
on the basis of gender, race or age. The state of pain management in the emergency …

OBJECTIVE. To examine the relationship between pediatric patient visit characteristics and
pain score documentation in the emergency department (ED) and determine whether …

Numerous behavioral pain measures have been validated for young children, but none is
appropriate to assess pain in emergency departments (EDs), where caregivers need a …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: Acute pain is the most frequent complaint in emergency department
(ED) admissions, but its management is often neglected, placing patients at risk of …

Objectives To compare the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and the Verbal Numerical Rating
Scale (VNRS), in the assessment of acute pain in the emergency department (ED) …

OBJECTIVE: To compare extra-abdominal to intra-abdominal repair of the uterine incision at
cesarean delivery. METHODS: This is a randomized controlled trial conducted at the Instituto …

Elderly people are susceptible to both falls and cognitive impairment making them a
particularly vulnerable group of patients when it comes to pain assessment and …