Emotional and physical pain‚ according to popular belief‚ are thought to stem from two different places in the brain. However‚ the origin of both types of pain occur in the same place. With physical pain an injury occurs‚ and the damaged area triggers nerve cells to send signals of anguish to the brain. The signals received are then very rapidly processed in the automatic‚ subconscious part of the brain. The amygdala and limbic structures of the brain are in place to alert us in case of danger. If an
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719 Reports of Investigation Risk factors of inadequate pain relief during epidural analgesia for labour and delivery Ghislaine Le Coq CRNA‚* B6atrice Ducot MD‚’f Dan Benhamou MD* Purpose: To determine the causes of failure of epidural analgesia during labour and delivery. Methods: During six months‚ pregnant patients receiving epidural analgesia and delivering vaginally were studied prospectively‚ Bupivacaine 0. 125% was used for the initial bolus dose and subsequent continuous infusion
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Any pain that is experienced for more than 3 months is referred to as chronic pain. Chronic pain can either be continuous or episodic depending on the individual’s experience. According to the American Pain Society (2015) “nearly 50 million American adults have significant chronic pain or severe pain. Prevalence rate for females is 34.3% and for men it is 26.7%”. Each individual experiences chronic pain differently such as type‚ timing and location of pain. Pain may be described as dull‚ sharp‚ burning
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Pilot Project: The Chronic Pain Diary Student: Hetal Patel Nurs 260 Semester – II Teacher: Mary McGrory March 17‚ 2009 Article evaluation The nursing journal “Pilot Project: The Chronic Pain Diary” is an assessment of chronic pain in the Nursing home population. The author of this journal is Dr. Kathy K Hager and Dr. Dorothy Brockopp. Dr. Hager is an Assistant Professor of Nursing in Bellarmine University Lansing School of Nursing from Louisville – Kentucky and Dr
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Pain is one of the most serious health concerns worldwide (1-4). Several studies have demonstrated an increasing pain prevalence which in turn leads to a substantially accumulative global health and economic burden (1‚ 2‚ 5-8). In addition to that‚ a recent study determined that pain is one of the leading reasons of global years lived with disability (1). It is reasonable‚ therefore‚ to adopt the notion that as life expectancy increases‚ the impact of pain- related disability is probably predicted
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Pain Management Joshi‚ G.‚ & Kehlet‚ H. (2013). Procedure-specific Pain Management: The Road to Improve Postsurgical Pain Management?. Anesthesiology‚ 118(4)‚ 780-782. . This article explained that good pain management is known to produce many benefits for the postoperative patient. However‚ the article goes on to explain that treating postoperative pain is still a major issue with inadequate postoperative patient pain relief remaining high. The article discussed how the Joint Commission declared
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Introduction Ingenious Pain tells the life story of James Dyer‚ a surgeon in eighteenth-century England who is gifted--and cursed--with the inability to feel physical or emotional pain. Beginning with his post-mortem‚ the novel traces the thirty-three years of his life‚ from his illegitimate conception on a frozen river‚ through the rise of his career from itinerant quack’s assistant to ship’s surgeon‚ and then to the court of Empress Catherine of Russia where he meets Mary‚ a mysterious woman who
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such emotions‚ pain is a combatant of positive and negative change. To look at happiness‚ you see acts of kindness and good‚ whereas anger more often then not causes nothing but trouble. However‚ pain does two things; pain is one of the most prevalent causes of human change‚ and is a provoker of human deterioration. With everything people say about pain‚ generalizing it to some common and minimalist thing‚ the first thing to be explained is what pain is not. Pain is not measurable. Pain is not something
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Pain Killers COM 220 2/21/10 Even though people do not believe they are addicted‚ painkillers are addicting because painkillers that are being misused are deadly and they are a hard habit to break. Many people are using and abusing painkillers which are prescription drugs and some may say that they are not and will not admit it. The effects of prescription abuse are painfully obvious and needed at the same time. Having a habit can lead to painkillers being addicted
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