AIM This paper is a report of a study to explore nurses' views on the benefits of adopting the role of prescribing for patients with acute and chronic pain. BACKGROUND It was envisioned that the advent of nurse prescribing would be beneficial to the efficiency and effectiveness of the United Kingdom National Health Service. Research to date does indeed indicate that nurse prescribing can be b...

Background: Early postoperative recovery has undergone many developments. mobilization, early nutritional intake, and adequate pain management are the scope of recovery. The principle starts from preoperative evaluation which includes medical psychological conditions, medication history, history chronic pain, drug abuse, previous treatment regiments to guide plans. Method: This research is an a...

OBJECTIVE Despite established standards, effective treatments, and evidence-based guidelines, postoperative pain control in Italy and other parts of the world remains suboptimal. Pain control has been recognized as a fundamental human right. Effective treatments exist to control postsurgical pain. Inadequate postoperative analgesia may prolong the length of hospital stays and may adversely impa...

BACKGROUND Previous national survey research has shown significant deficits in routine postoperative pain management in the UK. This study used an organizational change perspective to explore in detail the organizational challenges faced by three acute pain services in improving postoperative pain management. METHODS Case studies were conducted comprising documentary review and semi-structure...

In the present study, the effects of the acute and chronic oral administrations (po) of curcumin in the absence and presence of morphine and naloxone was investigated on the sensation of acute corneal pain in rats. Acute corneal pain was induced by the local application of hypertonic saline (5 M NaCl) on the corneal surface, and the number of eye wipes was then counted for 30 s. Subcutaneous (s...

OBJECTIVE   The purpose of this project was to determine whether machine-learning classifiers could predict which patients would require a preoperative acute pain service (APS) consultation. DESIGN   Retrospective cohort. SETTING   University teaching hospital. SUBJECTS   The records of 9,860 surgical patients posted between January 1 and June 30, 2010 were reviewed. OUTCOME MEASURES   ...

OBJECTIVES The recent National Service Framework for coronary heart disease advocates the establishment of rapid assessment clinics for chest pain. But how should these clinics be organised and do they fulfil their objectives? The aim of this study was to compare referral patterns to a daily and a weekly "one stop" rapid access chest pain clinic (RACPC), and to examine clinical outcome in patie...