Advancing Pain Care—Core Competencies for Pain Management

Advancing pain care--core competencies for pain management.

Fifty years of ibuprofen: advancing pain and fever management.

It is now 50 years since the first discovery by Dr (now Professor) Stewart Adams (of the Boots Pure Drug Company, Nottingham, UK) of the pharmacological effects of the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID), ibuprofen, in a guinea pig model of skin inflammation. It is now over 40 years since this drug was introduced into clinical use at doses of 1800–2400 mg ⁄ d for the treatment of arthr...

Advancing psychological therapies for chronic pain

There is a strong tradition of therapy development and evaluation in the field of psychological interventions for chronic pain. However, despite this research production, the effects of treatments remain uncertain, and treatment development has stalled. This review summarises the current evidence but focusses on promising areas for improvement. Advancing psychological therapies for chronic pain...

Multimodal Pain Management Protocol Versus Patient Controlled Narcotic Analgesia for Postoperative Pain Control after Shoulder Arthroplasty

  Background: Our institution’s traditional pain management strategy after shoulder arthroplasty has involved the utilization of postoperative patient-controlled narcotic analgesia. More recently, we have implemented a protocol (TLC) that utilizes a multimodal approach. The purpose of this study was to determine whether this change has improved pain control and decreased narcotic utilization. ...

Advancing Intercultural Competencies for Global Collaboration

Globalization is not a rite of passage and culture appears to be the most neglected and underestimated source of challenge in global professional services. Academic research on national culture and cultural differences has identified dimensions with an effect on the functioning not only of societies and individuals, but also of organizations and project teams. Once cultural differences are reco...