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Is Your Critical Care Unit Ready to Implement New Guidelines for Managing Pain, Agitation and Delirium?
Acutely ill patients are at high risk for pain, agitation and delirium (PAD), and recent evidence shows that implementing early assessment, prevention and detection protocols can reduce risk factors and improve patient outcomes.
To help hospitals put new guidelines for managing pain, agitation and delirium in critically ill patients into practice, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) will devote the next three sessions of its monthly AACN Critical Care Webinar Series to this high-interest clinical issue.
AACN developed the three-part webinar miniseries to support nurses, clinical teams and healthcare organizations as they implement the "Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Pain, Agitation and Delirium in Adult Patients in the Intensive Care Unit," issued earlier this year by the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM).
Acutely ill patients are at high risk for pain, agitation and delirium (PAD), and recent evidence shows that implementing early assessment, prevention and detection protocols can reduce risk factors and improve patient outcomes.
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How Can Digital Care Programs Aid Those With Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain?
June 9th 2020On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with Jeffrey Krauss, MD, chief medical officer of Hinge Health and Stanford Clinical assistant professor, about the efficacy of a 12-week digital care program aimed to reduce lower back and knee pain in a real-world population.
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Understanding the Impact of Inappropriate Opioid Prescribing Practices
April 19th 2019Deaths from drug overdoses have become the leading cause of death for Americans under age 50, which can largely be attributed to prescription opioids. Due to the role of prescription opioids, understanding prescribing patterns and identifying inappropriate prescribing are crucial for changing the course of the epidemic.
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MBSR Reduced Pain Perception in Patients With Migraine
December 19th 2020The finding about mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) was a secondary outcome of the double-blinded, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial. The primary outcome—a reduction in the frequency of migraines—was not reached.
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