Physical: Pain
Treat the Pain / Life Before Death Video Series
Focuses on the global epidemic of untreated pain and the need for palliative care.
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Freedom from Pain, Al Jazeera TV, July 20, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOmEQGvgq4A
For many in the West pain ends with a pill, but elsewhere the war on drugs is cutting people off from pain medication.
Stop Torture in Health Care, Open Society Foundations
Millions of people are left to suffer in pain without access to proper medicines. read more...close
The severity of the pain experienced by patients denied pain relief can be as great or greater than that of traditional torture techniques, and it can last longer. Although not acting out of malice, health workers and policymakers restrict access to pain medicines for inappropriate reasons such as exaggerated fears of addiction, failure to educate or train physicians in palliative care, arbitrary regulations on morphine-derived substances, and preoccupation with drug control rather than concern for people with pain.
- 50 milligrams is not enough
A video presenting the story of Vlad and his suffering from uncontrolled pain
Terminology
- International Association for the Study of Pain Terminology
The following pain terminology is from "Part III: Pain Terms, A Current List with Definitions and Notes on Usage" (pp 209-214) Classification of Chronic Pain, Second Edition, IASP Task Force on Taxonomy, edited by H. Merskey and N. Bogduk, IASP Press, Seattle, © 1994.
Pain Resources
- EPEC-Oncology Module 2: Cancer Pain Management [syllabus (508 KB)] [slides (162 KB)]
- AAPM: American Academy of Pain Medicine
The American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) is the medical specialty society representing physicians practicing in the field of Pain Medicine. - AHCPR Guideline: Management of Cancer Pain, 1994
- COH: City of Hope Pain & Palliative Care Resource Center
A clearinghouse to disseminate information and resources to assist others in improving the quality of pain management and end of life care.
IOM Report: Relieving Pain in America: A Blueprint for Transforming Prevention, Care, Education, and Research (open access)
In this report, the IOM offers a blueprint for action in transforming prevention, care, education, and research, with the goal of providing relief for people with pain in America.
Kenya National Cancer Control Strategy 2011-2016 published in August 2011 (PDF 650KB)
The Lancet: Managing pain effectively, 25 June 2011; 377 (9784):2151 (open access)
An overview of The Lancet's new clinical Series focusing on treatments for postoperative, chronic non-cancer, and chronic cancer pain.
- National Guideline Clearinghouse
- StopPain.org
Resources for professionals include downloadable slide presentations, overviews of the most common chronic pain disorders, frequently asked questions, Resource Center for Pain Medicine and Palliative Care at Beth Israel Medical Center, publications, glossary, bibliographies, teaching materials, research resources and more.
Fast Facts
- #68: Is It Pain or Addiction?
- #69: Pseudoaddiction
- #028: Subcutaneous Infusions
- #78: Cultural Aspects of Pain Management
- #089: Pain Management in Nursing Homes: Analgesic Prescribing Tips
- #092: Patient Controlled Analgesia in Palliative Care
- #202: Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty for Vertebral Compression Fractures
- #215: Opioid Poorly-Responsive Cancer Pain
AGS: The American Geriatrics Society
Management of persistent pain in older persons 347 KB
Talaria: The hypermedia assistant for cancer pain management
EWMA: European Wound Management Association
Pain at wound dressing changes
Nociceptive Pain
Fast Facts
- #97: Blocks of the Sympathetic Axis for Visceral Pain
- #113: Bisphosphonates for Bone Pain
- #116: Radiopharmaceuticals for Painful Osseous Metastases
- #129: Steroids In the Treatment of Bone Pain
- #085: Epidural Analgesia
Neuropathic Pain
Fast Facts #212: Phantom Limb Pain
Opioids
Fast Facts
- #002: Converting To-From Transdermal Fentanyl
- #008: Morphine and Hastened Death
- #018: Oral Opioid Dosing Intervals
- #020: Opioid Dose Escalation
- #025: Opioids and Nausea
- #028: Subcutaneous Infusions
- #036: Calculating Opioid Dose Conversions
- #039: Using Naloxone
- #051: Choosing an opioid Combination Product
- #053: Sublingual Morphine
- #054: Opioid Infusions
- #057: Neuroexcitatory Effects of Opioids: Patient assessment
- #58: Neuroexcitatory Effects of Opioids: Treatment
- #070: PRN Range Analgesic Orders
- #071: Meperidine for Pain: What Is all the fuss?
- #072: Opioid Infusion Titration Orders
- #074: Oral Opioid Orders: Good and Bad Examples
- #075: Methadone for Pain
- #080: OxyContin
- #083: Why Patients Do Not Take Their Opioids
- #085: Epidural Analgesia
- #086: Methadone: Starting Dose Information
- #094: Writing Discharge / Outpatient Opioid Prescriptions
- #095: Opioid Withdrawal
- #098: Intrathecal Drug Therapy for Pain
- #103: Oral Transmucosal Fentanyl Citrate-OTFC (ACTIQ®)
- #110: Urine Drug Testing
- #142: Opiod-Induced Hyperalgesia
- #161: Opioid Use in Rena lFailure
- #166: Once-Daily Oral Morphine Formulations
- #171: Methadone for Neuropathic Pain
- #175: Opioid Allergic Reactions
- #181: Oral Oxymorphone
- #185: Topical Opioids for Pain
- #198: Regulatory Issues for Prescribing Schedule II Opioids at the End of Life
Palliative.Org
Non-Opioids
Fast Facts
- #098: Intrathecal Drug Therapy for Pain
- #113: Bisphosphonates for Bone Pain
- #116: Radiopharmaceuticals for Painful Osseous Metastases
- #129: Steroids in the Treatment of Bone Pain
- #132: Ketamine Use in Palliative Care
- #148: The Lidocaine Patch
- #202: Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty for Vertebral Compression Fractures
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