Essays Tagged: "Pain assessment"
Pain Assessment Tools
Pain Assessment ToolsPain is a major health problem in this country and is the most common symptom t ... problem in this country and is the most common symptom that prompts a patient to seek health care. Pain tells a person something is wrong. At its worst, pain makes the person's life miserable decreas ... worst, pain makes the person's life miserable decreases the ability to function normally. For some, pain decreases his/her desire to live. Pain differs among individual patients, even those who appear ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Pain Management in Children
PAIN MANAGEMENT IN CHILDRENAdequate pain management should be viewed as an essential component of co ... sionate medical care of children. A child's developmental level frames the child's understanding of painful experiences. Cognition of the toddler: has the capacity for basic reasoning; understands obj ... e manner and use abstract thinking. The language of the adolescent is similar to that of the adult. Pain assessment scales should be used with children. For the three to seven year old there is the fa ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs
World Health Organization
r treatment and has affirmed its role early in the disease process. Palliative care aims to relieve pain and suffering and to promote an increased quality of life for patients and their families. Alth ... ing the types of care the patient will receive. Palliative care can help to achieve these goals via pain management and symptom control and by providing spiritual, psychosocial, and bereavement suppor ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Pain Assessment Tool for Postoperative Pain-week 12
Pain Assessment Tool for Postoperative PainAs mentioned earlier, Clark and Spear (1964) found the VA ... well-being. In addition, it was shown that it reacts to all procedures that alter the experience of pain, for example, the use of pharmacological interventions, as well as changes in intensity in diff ... ological interventions, as well as changes in intensity in different patients with acute or chronic pain (Belanger et al. 1989, Price et al. 1989, Choiniere et al. 1996). In addition, Cotanch (1988) a ...
Subjects: Science Essays
Pain Assessment Week 3
Running Head: Week 3Pain Assessment Tool for Postoperative Pain[Writer Name][Institute Name] �Pain Assessmen ... Postoperative Pain[Writer Name][Institute Name] �Pain Assessment Tool for Postoperative PainIntroductionMost of pains are usually adopted methods can be regarded as an assessment scale, in ... ver a 24-hour period. Its reliability was established by administering repeated his patients with a painful health condition such as angina, and then studying the trajectory of pain from time-intensit ...
Subjects: Science Essays
Pain Assessment Week 4
Running Head: WEEK 4Pain Assessment Tool for Postoperative Pain[Writer Name][Institute Name] �Pain Assessmen ... Postoperative Pain[Writer Name][Institute Name] �Pain Assessment Tool for Postoperative PainIntroductionIts main disadvantage is its unreliability for the elderly or very young patients wh ... with VDS (Mercadente and et al. 2000, Kamel et al. 2001). For example, in Mercadente et al. (2000), pain was assessed in cancer patients (N = 10) using the VAS and other symptoms of nausea, vomiting, ...
Subjects: Science Essays
Pain Assessment Tool for Postoperative Pain-week 7
Running Head: Week 7Pain Assessment Tool for Postoperative Pain[Writer Name][Institute Name] �Pain Assessmen ... Postoperative Pain[Writer Name][Institute Name] �Pain Assessment Tool for Postoperative PainIntroductionThis is based on the measurement of the six pain-related variables: pain, anxiety, v ... he measurement of the six pain-related variables: pain, anxiety, verbal statements on the degree of pain, skeletal muscle response, respiration and the amount of sweat. Although the authors claim that ...
Subjects: Science Essays
Pain Assessment Tool for Postoperative Pain-week 8
Running Head: Week 8Pain Assessment Tool for Postoperative Pain[Writer Name] [Institute Name] Pain AssessmentTool f ... ool for Postoperative Pain[Writer Name] [Institute Name] Pain AssessmentTool for Postoperative PainIntroductionOne of the main advantages of this magnitude is a number of studies supporting its r ... this tool can be successfully used in obtaining data on the qualitative and quantitative aspects of pain, he may also consider its multidimensionality (Flaherty 1996). Nevertheless, one of its major w ...
Subjects: Science Essays