Bedside Pain Management Interventions

Molecular and physiological mechanisms of acute and chronic pain.- Assessment scales, clinical tools and techniques.- Challenges of the management of acute pain in hospitalized patients with preexisting chronic pain, barriers to adequate pain control in hospital settings.- Patient satisfaction with inpatient management of pain.- Limitations of inpatient pharmacological treatment.- Patient groups with limited tolerance to pharmacologic management.- Special considerations for bedside pain management interventions for elderly.- Special considerations for bedside pain management interventions for children.- Bedside interventions for parturients.- Neuraxial anesthesia.- Bedside perioperative interventions.- Bedside interventions in patients with implanted pain management devices, including intrathecal pumps, spinal cord stimulators, and peripheral nerve stimulator.- Portable sonography and landmark techniques for bedside interventional procedures.- Complications of bedside interventional procedures. Local anesthetic toxicity.- Bedside injections for head and neck pain.- Bedside injections for shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand pain.- Bedside injections for upper back pain.- Bedside injections for thoracic pain.- Bedside injections for abdominal pain.- Bedside injections for pelvic pain.- Bedside injections for lower back and sacral pain.- Bedside injections for hip, knee, and foot pain.- Bedside injections for lower extremity pain.- Bedside Chiropractic and Osteopathic Manipulations.- Bedside Pain Psychology Interventions.- Bedside Physical Therapy Interventions.- Bedside Integrative Medicine Interventions.<p></p>