Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses
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Previous studies support the role of both auditory and visual stimuli in the evocation of empathy, but no research to date has explored the relative effectiveness of each on any type of empathy. ⋯ The study found that auditory information is more impactful in eliciting perceptions of pain in others compared with visual information. Experiences of clinical empathy and patient care may be improved by focusing on patients' auditory pain communications.
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Coping can be defined as the cognitive efforts and behavioral practices that people develop in situations which they consider to be stressful. In people with Chronic Non-Cancer Pain (CNCP), coping is influenced by the biological, psychological, and socio-cultural resources available to them. The aim of this systematic review is to evaluate the psychometric properties of European measuring instruments related to coping with CNCP in non-hospitalized adults. ⋯ There are important gaps in the measurement of different aspects of pain coping, such as stress, social and family support, or self-care. Future studies could consider the creation of an instrument to comprehensively assess the resources that influence coping with chronic non-cancer pain.
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The Pediatric Critical-Care Observation Tool (P-CPOT) is an adaption of the Critical-Care Pain Observation Tool (CPOT) originally designed to assess pain in nonverbal critically-ill adults. ⋯ The P-CPOT is a valid scale for assessing pain in PICU patients with very good psychometric performance. It is especially adept in detecting pain in ventilated patients.
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Review
Intravenous Lidocaine for Chronic Neuropathic Pain A Systematic Review Addressing Nursing Care.
The intravenous administration of lidocaine for patients with chronic neuropathic pain is well documented in the literature. However, little is known about the role of the nurse caring for patients receiving the infusion. ⋯ Nursing care focuses on pain assessment, close observation and intervention if neurological changes occur.
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Racial and ethnic disparities in pain management are widely documented in the United States. The 2016 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines for opioid prescribing have generated new imperatives for using complementary and alternative medicine approaches (CAM) to manage chronic pain, including cancer pain. This review's purpose was to explore the prevalence of CAM use for cancer-related pain among racial and ethnic minorities and to organize these findings according to the CAM modalities proposed by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH). ⋯ Overall, CAM use for any modality ranged from 51% to 83%. Mind-body therapies were reported most, and energy therapies the least. Differences in CAM use were most often attributable to socioeconomic status (SES), with those of higher SES associated with greater use of practitioner-assisted CAM therapies and those of lower SES with greater use of free therapies. This difference has implications for achieving adequate and consistent pain relief among subgroups of patients with cancer. This review also identifies a literature gap regarding racial/ethnic disparities in access to CAM for cancer pain, and a need for validated measures to assess CAM use.