Psychotropic Medications
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Chronic pain is frequently comorbid with both anxiety and mood disorders. Although many pain medicine practitioners may not manage psychiatric conditions, it is increasingly important to…
PAIN MEDICINE
Urine Drug Testing
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Urine drug testing (UDT) is considered one of the mainstays of adherence monitoring in conjunction with prescription monitoring programs and other screening tools; however, UDT is…
The Interface of Pain Management and Chemical Dependency
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen With the passage of the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act in 1914, the United States federal government put states, as well as physicians, nurses, and patients, on…
Rising Standards for Risk Management in Opioid Use for Chronic Pain
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Similar to treatments that carry substantial risks and must be used with great care, the drug group collectively known as opioid analgesics can be therapeutically desirable…
Ultrasound-Guided Peripheral Nerve Blockade
OVERVIEW Print Section Listen GENERAL DATA AND INFORMATION Regional anesthesia (often called peripheral nerve blockade) involves injecting a volume of local anesthetic in specific locations around nerves that supply various…
Pain Management in End of Life: Palliative Care
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen The basic principles of the diagnosis and management of pain syndromes are similar across all clinical settings. Details of the application of these principles, however, can…
Pain Associated with Arterial and Venous Vascular Disease
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen By late middle age 5% of men and women will have developed peripheral arterial disease and within 5 years 25% of these will develop pain at…
Chronic Pain in Infants and Children
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Children may experience a variety of recurrent chronic pain, such as headache or abdominal pain. Chronic pain is more common in children than persistent pain and…
Cancer Pain and Palliative Care in Children
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen The prognosis of cancer in children has improved dramatically over the past 40 years. Unlike many adult cancers, pediatric malignancies are often responsive to initial aggressive…
Acute Pain Management in Infants and Children
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Over the past two decades, there has been significant progress in the understanding of neuroanatomy, physiology, and the pharmacology of analgesics in children, which has led…
