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Pain Management

HOPE. Helping Optimize Pain Education. CD/Notebook

Information on Rating Pain Severity, Rating Pain Impact, Pain-Related Health History, and Abuse Screeners. Includes a notebook with written information and a CD.

Pain Management Series. Video

Pathophysiology, Assessment, and the Pain Management Program. Program 1. 25 min.
Explains the pathophysiology of nociceptive and neuropathic pain and discusses the personal experience of pain. The physical, psychological, and social effects of uncontrolled pain are illustrated. Program concludes with a presentation of pain assessment tools, an overview of guidelines outlined by JJCAHO, and a discussion of desired outcomes of a successful pain management program.
Pharmacological Treatment Strategies. Program 2. 22 min.
Examines the two major groups of pharmacological treatment modalities: non-narcotic and narcotic. Adjuvant medications in pain management are also explored. Guidelines on treatment approaches for the types and delivery routes of medications are presented. Program discusses the etiologies and treatment trajectoris for acute, chronic non-malignant, and chronic malignant pain.
Physical and Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches to Pain Management. Program 3. 22 min.
Program discusses physical and cognitive-behavioral modalities, with a review of complimenary treatment regimens. Emphasis is placed on how these approaches are used for particular inpatient and outpatient populations. A central theme of the presentation is the importance of effective education of patients and the need for their active involvement in their programs.
Pain Management Programs for Special Patient Populations. Program 4. 22 min.
Program describes techniques used in the assessment and management of pain for patient populations with special needs - those who are cognitively impaired, deny or under report pain, refuse pain relief, are unconscious, or are elderly. Specific guidelines are provided on how to modify assessment techniques, medication management, and treatment modalities to effectively care for these populations.

Pain Control During Labor and Delivery. Program 3. DVD

This program explores both physiologic and psychosocial causes of pain during labor and delivery. It describes the discomfort associated with each stage of labor and discusses nonpharmacologic methods of pain management including traditional and non-traditional methods. It also explains the different types of pharmacologic pain control including various systemic and regional medications.

Pediatric Medication Administration Series. Program 2. Parenteral Meds. Video

Discusses general principles to reduce emotional and physical pain from injections and to increase patient safety. Focuses on intramuscular injections discussing decisions the nurse must make regarding needle length,needle gauge, and injection site. Subcutaneous injections are contrasted with intramuscular injections and discussed briefly.

Acute Pain Management in Children: Operative or Medical Procedures. Video

This video discusses the Health & Human Services Clinical Practice Guideline Booklet on pain management; pain assessment & reassessment; managing pain related procedures; managing postoperative pain; neonates and infants and nonpharmacologic techniques for managing pain.

Relief of Back Pain During Labor. Poster

Shows several different positions for back pain relief.

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A Different Kind of Care. Moyers on Dying. Video

Presents the important strides being made in the area of palliative care in institutions such as New York's Mt Sinai Hospital and the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Leaders in this area emphasize pain management and the need for doctors to address a patient's psychological, emotional and spiritual well-being, as well as his or her physical condition.