Hadzic's Regional Anesthesia > Chapter 68. Regional Anesthesia & Acute Pain Management in the Emergency Department >
Pain Assessment in the ED
... Recognizing that pain is a major public health problem, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) has placed a great deal of emphasis on the importance of ...

Principles & Practice of Pain Medicine > Chapter 45. Medical Management of Cancer Pain >
Pain Assessment
... Pain is often underrecognized in cancer patients. Cleeland et al surveyed outpatients with metastatic cancer and physicians from 54 treatment centers. 3 They found that 42% of 597 ...

Principles & Practice of Pain Medicine > Chapter 52. Sickle Cell Disease >
Pain Assessment Guidelines
... 1. Pain should become a routinely measurable vital sign, using a simple, preferably universal, scale. 2. Patient self-report should be the primary source of assessment, using behavioral cues ...

Principles & Practice of Pain Medicine > Chapter 53. Acute Pain Management in Infants and Children >
Pain Assessment in Infants and Children
... Pain assessment is a fundamental and essential part of pain treatment. The ability to reliably assess pain facilitates the diagnosis of painful conditions and helps ...

Principles & Practice of Pain Medicine > Chapter 57. Pain in the Elderly >
Pain Assessment in the Elderly
... also be potential sources of musculoskeletal pain. Range-of-motion maneuvers and functional evaluation may reproduce pain and assist in functional assessment. A neurologic ...

Longnecker's Anesthesiology > Chapter 74. Management of Acute Postoperative Pain > Background >
Pain Assessment
... Pain is a complex, multidimensional symptom resulting from a combination of tissue damage and nociception, previous pain experience, personal beliefs, culture and mood. This explains ...

Longnecker's Anesthesiology > Chapter 94. Palliative and Cancer Pain Care > Assessment >
Screening Instruments
... Many pain clinics use a questionnaire to aid in and standardize assessment. The Wisconsin Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) and Memorial Pain Assessment Card are well-accepted, ...

Principles & Practice of Pain Medicine > Chapter 84. Disability Assessment of Pain-Impaired Patients > Functional Assessment Methods in Pain Patients >
Pain Intensity
... Since pain is a multidimensional experience and is private and subjective in nature, it may be the most difficult measurement to perform in health assessment. Its results often do ...

Principles & Practice of Pain Medicine > Chapter 13. Psychosocial Assessment of Chronic Pain > The Clinical Interview in Psychosocial Assessment >
Structured and Semistructured Pain Interviews
... developed specifically for use with the pain patient, but one of the more widely used of these is the Psychosocial Pain Inventory (PSPI). 24 This instrument guides the ...

Lange Anesthesiology > Chapter 18. Pain Management > Evaluating the Patient with Pain >
Pain Measurement
... Reliable quantitation of pain severity helps determine therapeutic interventions and evaluate the efficacy of treatments. This is a challenge, however, because pain is a subjective ...