The objectives are as follows: To assess the benefits and harms of dexmedetomidine compared with opioids, non-opioids and placebo in providing sedation and analgesia for procedural pain in newborn ...

Older adults are reluctant to report pain: therefore, nurses need to be proactive in screening for and assessing pain. No objective measure or biological marker of pain exists. Simply worded ...

This is shown by the largest survey to date of pain in neonatal care, now published in the journal Pain. Every day for 4.5 years, neonatal care staff have recorded the occurrence of pain ...

Persistent pain is common in older adults, and its consequences are often severe. Self-assessment scales have been validated in older populations and remain the gold standard for the evaluation of ...

It will raise awareness of pain problems and the attitudes which can contribute to these and it will enhance your ability to assess and examine pain phenomena. This short course forms part of the BSc ...