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Low back pain accounts for billions of dollars in health care expenditures. Most cases of back pain do not have a clear cause. Thus, low back pain management methods usually rely on targeting people' pain and discomfort. Painkillers, including opioids, are usually prescribed in the emergency departments for people with low back pain. But, like all medications, painkillers can have side effects, and some of those can be serious. There are also serious concerns about the overuse of painkillers. Thus, newer pain management methods are needed to reduce the use of painkillers in people with low back pain. Lumbar braces are one of the underutilized low back pain management methods in the emergency departments. Like crutches for leg and ankle injuries, they can minimise movements of the spine. This may decrease people pain and improve their function. This may also reduce the use of painkillers. In support of this approach, two recent studies conducted in a primary-care setting observed a reduction in the use of painkillers in people with low back pain who wore lumbar braces. The investigators are conducting this study to determine if wearing a lumbar brace for 4 weeks following emergency department presentation will reduce people's pain and discomfort and increase spine function. This may decrease the use of painkiller and future use of healthcare resources. This research study may also assist emergency-department staff with offering new recommendations to improve the quality of clinical decisions.
The aim of this study is to validate the Critical-Care Pain Observation Tool (CPOT) in the setting of the Intensive care unit (ICU). Prior to patient recruitment the tool will be translated by the method of translation-back translation by Greek and English native speakers. The tool will be administered to patients who are admitted into the ICU.
This study uses a prospective non-randomized, non-controlled design. One Hundred Fifty (150) subjects presenting with pain will be enrolled into a single treatment group The purpose of the study is to evaluate the feasibility of PLEDS for PIV catheter light delivery for pain reduction, through change between baseline average pain and final average VAS score. The absence of a control group is based on the following reason: The purpose of this investigation is to further the understanding of the feasibility of PLEDS for PIV catheter light delivery for pain management. Further, the results of this investigation will be used (internally only) to determine if subject-perceived reductions in pain warrant proceeding with more controlled, targeted and possibly randomized studies.
Pain is a symptom that drives hospital admissions, and pain management is required by most patients during their hospital stay. Further, the use of medications such as opioids can lead to upward-spiraling doses, especially among chronic pain patients whose resource utilization rates are high. Many initiatives aim to reduce the costs of these "high-resource utilizing" patients. One exciting aspect of improving the management of pain is that this may help prevent patients from ever becoming high-cost in the first place. The purpose of this study is to examine the impacts of an early and sustained intervention pathway, in comparison to the current standard of care, for the treatment of pain in opioid tolerant patients. It is hypothesized that patients randomized to the intervention pathway, in comparison to the control, will lead to decreased costs of care, a reduction in opioid usage within 3 and 6 months, and decrease in hospital readmission rates.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether levobupivacaine is effective in the acute postoperative pain treatment in periprosthetic breast augmentation
Cervical radicular pain is a common cause of disability and pain in the upper extremity and neck with an annual incidence of 83.2/100,000 (1). The initial treatment is conservative and includes relative rest, use of anti-inflammatory and analgesic medication, as well as physical therapy and home exercise. For patients who have persistent and significant symptoms, interventional pain management and surgical management are considered. Cervical epidural injections are the mainstay of the interventional, non-surgical modalities. They can be considered to provide short and long-term relief when disc herniation, foraminal stenosis or central canal stenosis pathology is identified. We are not aware of any published prospective, randomized, controlled, double-blinded studies demonstrating the efficacy of cervical transforaminal epidural steroid injections. However, the North American Spine Society (NASS) Review and Recommendation Statement states that based on the literature and expert opinion, a minimum of one or two cervical epidural steroid injections would be very appropriate in the treatment of a specific episode of cervical radicular pain. The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of cervical transforaminal epidural steroid injections in decreasing the need for an operation in patients with cervical radicular pain, otherwise considered to be operative candidates.
Single center, prospective, observational study to assess serum concentration of ingredients used in multi-ingredient, topical compounded medications from Medimix Specialty Pharmacy.
Background Approximately 30 million children are treated in emergency departments each year in the United States, of which two to three million are children presenting with lacerations. Topical numbing medication is the standard of care in children with regard to pain control during laceration repair. While topical numbing medications are effective, children often require further pain control during laceration repair in the form of an injected numbing medication, which in itself is painful. No evidence currently exists regarding the concurrent use of oral pain medications to combat laceration procedural pain. Research Question Does the addition of ibuprofen or oxycodone to lidocaine, epinephrine, and tetracaine (LET) topical anesthetic provide more effective pain control than LET alone during laceration repair? Design This is a double-blinded, randomized-controlled study. Methods Subjects in all three groups will receive topical anesthetic. In addition to topical anesthetic, two groups of children will receive either of two oral analgesics, ibuprofen or oxycodone, while the third group will receive a placebo.
Number of patients in mobile palliative care units have pain of both nociceptive and neuropathic origin. In certain cases, procedures of locoregional analgesia can be helpful. The Purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of techniques of locoregional analgesia in a palliative population