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Virtual Reality For Pediatric Pain Management, Leonard Paulo
Virtual Reality For Pediatric Pain Management, Leonard Paulo
Master of Science in Nursing Family Nurse Practitioner
Abstract: It is well-studied that inadequate pain management is detrimental to the pediatric population because inadequate pain management can lead to noncompliance when pertaining to needle sticks that can carry into adulthood, one out of four adults is estimated to have a fear of needles which often develops in childhood. Evidence-based practice report that the use of distraction is a simple and efficient method to minimize the trauma that some children feel when getting immunization or venipuncture. Under the lens of pain gate theory and capacity theory, Virtual Reality has been studied and shown to minimize pain. VR is …
Multimodal Medicine: Pain Control Potential, Tyler Ostlund
Multimodal Medicine: Pain Control Potential, Tyler Ostlund
Master of Science in Nursing Family Nurse Practitioner
Due to the continual problem with overuse of, overdose on, and abuse of opioid medications for the past three decades it is paramount that effective, cheap, and above all safe forms of pain control are studied and applied. Multimodal pain management utilizes a combination of pharmacological and non pharmacological therapies in synergy to control pain and reduce dependence on strictly opioids. Combining the effects of medications or therapies that focus on treating different types or sources of pain such as inflammatory pain, neurological pain, etc. With the adoption of this method of pain management, the longstanding effects of the opioid …