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Older Adults With Traumatic Rib Fractures: An Evidence-Based Approach To Their Care, Blaine A. Winters
Older Adults With Traumatic Rib Fractures: An Evidence-Based Approach To Their Care, Blaine A. Winters
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It is expected that over the next decade the population of older adults in the United States will increase dramatically. As the older adult population increases, the number of older adults involved in traumatic accidents is also expected to climb. The older population is at na increased risk for complications and poor outcomes following trauma. Practitioners caring for these older adults will need to use evidence-based practice guidelines in an attempt to improve outcomes. This article provides a clinical guideline for the assessment and management of pain in older adults with traumatic rib fractures, and an approach for pain assessment, …
Managing Phantom Pain With Drugs, Shelly Jensen Reed
Managing Phantom Pain With Drugs, Shelly Jensen Reed
Faculty Publications
Reed offers advice on how to manage and prevent pain that exists in a limb that doesn't. More than 70 percent of amputees suffer from stump and phantom limb pain years after amputation.
Patient And Care Giver Perceptions Of Cancer Pain Control, Patricia Rushton, Sherry Brown
Patient And Care Giver Perceptions Of Cancer Pain Control, Patricia Rushton, Sherry Brown
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PURPOSE: This study measured the perceptions of Utah cancer patients and cargivers concerning knowledge about and adequacy of pharmacologic cancer pain control. METHODS: A descriptive survey was used. Questionnaires were sent to cancer patients and caregivers surveying their knowledge about and perceptions of the adequacy of pharmacologic cancer pain control. RESULTS: The study had a 52% response rate (259 of 500). Eighty five percent (219 of 259) of the respondents stated they had no cancer pain. CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: Cancer literature indicated that much cancer pain is not effectively controlled. The majority of the respondents of this study reported no pain. …