RT Book, Section
A1 Rabow, Michael W.
A1 Pantilat, Steven Z.
A1 Shah, Ann Cai
A1 Poree, Lawrence
A1 Mitra, Raj
A2 Papadakis, Maxine A.
A2 McPhee, Stephen J.
A2 Rabow, Michael W.
A2 McQuaid, Kenneth R.
SR Print(0)
ID 1193126434
T1 Principles of Pain Management
T2 Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2023
YR 2023
FD 2023
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781264687343
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1193126434
RD 2024/04/25
AB The  experience  of  pain  is  unique  to  each  person  and  influenced  by  many  factors,  including  the  patient’s  prior  experiences  with  pain,  meaning  given  to  the  pain,  emotional  stresses,  and  family  and  cultural  influences.  Pain  is  a  subjective  and  multi-faceted  phenomenon,  and  clinicians  cannot  reliably  detect  its  existence  or  quantify  its  severity  without  asking  the  patient  directly.  A  brief  means  of  assessing  pain  and  evaluating  the  effectiveness  of  analgesia  is  to  ask  the  patient  to  rate  the  degree  of  pain  along  a  numeric  or  visual  pain  scale  (Table  5–4),  assessing  trends  over  time.  Clinicians  should  ask  about  the  nature,  severity,  timing,  location,  quality,  and  aggravating  and  relieving  factors  of  the  pain.