April 3, 2017 - A new Behavior Pain Assessment Tool (BPAT) provides a simple way to evaluate pain in critically ill patients--including those who aren't able to communicate their pain verbally, ...

Ensuring that laboratory rodent pain is well managed underpins the ethical acceptability of working with these animals in research. Appropriate treatment of pain in laboratory rodents requires ...

This study, comparing NRS and VRS psychometric properties in the assessment of pain exacerbations, reveals a significantly higher discriminatory capability of NRS in distinguishing between background ...

When you present to your doctor with a health problem of any kind, they will likely either directly perform or refer you out for some form of testing. This is so common that it would be unusual if it ...

Research primates may undergo surgical procedures making effective pain management essential to ensure good animal welfare and unbiased scientific data. Adequate pain mitigation is dependent on ...

The Joint Commission has released new pain assessment and management standards that will take effect January 1 for all accredited hospitals. The new and revised standards come in response to the ...

The Wong-Baker Faces Pain Rating scale is a self-assessment tool that helps communication about physical pain. It uses a combination of faces, numbers, and words, providing multiple ways for a person ...

Correspondence to Mr Paul Blazey, Department of Physical Therapy, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; paul.blazey{at}ubc.ca Objective Clinicians treating patients with ...

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 ...

November 11, 2009 — Feeding and breast-feeding newborns are found to be the most effective methods of pain relief during heel-lancing, according to the results of a prospective study reported in the ...