YOUR PATIENT Print Section Listen An otherwise healthy 2-year-old male child presents with a history of multiple ear infections and hearing loss. He has just completed a course of amoxicillin…
YOUR PATIENT Print Section Listen A 10-year-old female presents to the emergency room with a history of spitting blood-tinged secretions for 2 days and vomiting blood in the last 12…
YOUR PATIENT Print Section Listen A 5-year-old with obstructive sleep apnea presents for tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy. PREOPERATIVE CONSIDERATIONS Print Section Listen Sleep apnea is defined as a pause in breathing…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Neurostimulation techniques have been used in the management of pain for close to 50 years. Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) represents one of the most widely…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Over the past several years, there has been considerable interest in expanding the role of the pain management specialist as an integral member of the health…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen The focus of the ethics literature regarding pain management has shifted from issues related to the treatment of patients experiencing terminal pain to the concept of…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen The measurement of health is central to the evaluation of health care. Until the first part of the 20th century, health was defined as the absence…
PHYSICAL MODALITIES Print Section Listen Modalities are commonly used to produce a response in tissues and include heat, water, cold, sound, and electricity. These modalities should not be used as…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen There has been growing interest in the West about the application of acupuncture to control pain since President Nixon’s well-publicized trip to China in 1971. The…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen The objectives of this chapter are to review the literature for articles about skilled therapy services applied to treat painful conditions; report primary outcomes of therapy…
