purpose: patients may control postoperative pain by self-administration of intravenous opioids   using devices designed for this purpose (patient controlled analgesia or pca). this study set out   to determine whether any of the two opioid administrations (i.e. pca or conventional analgesia)   would provide superior pain relief among patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy   or not.   ...

aim and background: there is a relation between patients' levels of physical functioning and their acceptance of chronic pain. however, this relation has not been examined amongst iranian chronic pain patients. the purpose of this paper was to evaluate the relation between acceptance of chronic pain and physical disability. methods and materials: in a descriptive-correlational study, convenienc...

conclusions the most comfortable postoperative women were those in luteal phase without history of pms group. results patients with pms presented higher pain sensation and analgesia request (p = 0.003). patients in luteal phase showed less pain and analgesia request in two out of five studied outcomes (p = 0.075). patients and methods a total of 140 women in in postoperative period were assigne...

conclusions this study indicated that the modified version of the adult nvps in step with the vrs is a useful tool for pain intensity assessment in the ed. results the average age of the participants was 35.2 years, and the extremities were the most common painful area (66.2%). the mean vrs and nvrs pain intensity ratings upon arrival were 6.16 (± 2.63) and 3.06 (± 2.17), respectively. the esti...

  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. ...

Background & aim: Giving birth is a painful process, which exposes women to a lot of stress. It is the responsibility of the healthcare practitioners to make this process less burdensome. In this regard, the present study aimed to investigate the attitudes of postpartum mothers towards labor pain relief. Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on 153 females with spontaneo...

background: today application of computer in the life of people is very common and those who work with computer in especially long – term are faced with musculoskeletal pains. the aim of this study was to investigate risk factors of musculoskeletal and joint pains among computer users in rafsanjan city in the years 2012-13. materials and methods: in this descriptive study, 420 computer users we...

Hyperalgesia is a common clinical phenomenon among opioid dependent patients on methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) and it may be associated with undertreated pain and/or therapeutic failure. This study aimed to investigate association between serum methadone concentration (SMC) and cold pressor pain responses. Cold pressor pain responses in 147 opioid dependent patients on MMT were assessed us...