The aim of this study was to explore on which variables a stress reduction program based on heart coherence can enhance the effects of a back school (BS) in patients with chronic non-specific low back pain and to explore possible moderators for treatment success. A retrospective explorative design was carried out with 170 patients with chronic non-specific low back pain. 89 Patients were admitt...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Visceral pain is a significant issue for patients, and the importance of treating pain is underestimated. New opioid formulations, the primary treatment option for moderate-to-severe pain, have been shown to be effective, but no studies have been conducted to address the efficacy of these agents for visceral pain. This study was conducted to determine the incidence of ...

Objective: To develop and test the reliability and validity of the State Behavioral Scale for use in describing sedation/agitation levels in young intubated patients supported on mechanical ventilation. Design: In this prospective, psychometric evaluation, pairs of trained pediatric critical care nurse evaluators simultaneously and independently assessed a convenience sample of pediatric intens...

BACKGROUND The degree of pain caused by the implantation of cardiac electronic devices (CEDs) and the type of anesthesia or perioperative pain management used with the procedure have been insufficiently studied. The aim of this study was to analyze perioperative pain management, as well as intensity and location of pain among patients undergoing implantation of CED, and to compare the practice ...

We describe here a patient who obtained a good analgesic effect with high-dose fentanyl patches for controlling cancer pain. A 52-year-old man was referred to our hospital because of severe cancer pain that was 7/10 on a numeric rating scale (NRS). He had been diagnosed with locally advanced cholangiocarcinoma 3 months previously. We prescribed weak opioids and an antidepressant, but his pain w...

A preliminary report of clinical study revealed that chronic discogenic low back pain could be treated by intradiscal methylene blue (MB) injection. We investigated the effect of intradiscal MB injection for the treatment of chronic discogenic low back pain in a randomized placebo-controlled trial. We recruited 136 patients who were found potentially eligible after clinical examination and 72 b...

OBJECTIVE To identify any association between the response priority code generated during calls to the ambulance communication centre and patient reports of pain severity. METHODS A retrospective analysis of patient care records was undertaken for all patients transported by paramedics over a 7-day period. The primary research interest was the association between the response code allocated a...

BACKGROUND Triage is used to prioritize the patients in the emergency department. The majority of the triage systems include the patients' pain score to assess their level of acuity by using a combination of patient reported pain and observer-perceived pain; the latter therefore requires a certain degree of inter-observer agreement. The aim of the present study was to assess the inter-observer ...

Results AS-Group included 40 patients, 10 men and 30 women (age 61.8±11.5 years, BMI 23.6±2.8kg/m2). A single curve was present in 32 patients (80%). Primary curve averaged 27.1±11.5° (range, 15–63°), thoracic curve averaged 25.5±22.3° (range, 8–58°). NL-Group included 40 patients, 9 men and 31 women (age 58.2±10.9 years, BMI 23.9±3.2kg/m2). NRS score for AS-group was 5.9±1.8 (range, 2–10), whi...