Pain Assessment and Management Initiative

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• Learning Modules (click this link to register or log into the PAMI online course) PAMI module topics: (Each module is 2 credit hours.)

You DO NOT need to take modules in listed order!

1. Basics of Pain Assessment and Management
2. Managing Pediatric Pain in Acute Care Settings
3. Nonpharmacologic Management of Pain in Adults and Children

For PAMI and general inquiries:

emresearch@jax.ufl.edu
904-244-4986
Division of Research, Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Florida College of Medicine - Jacksonville
655 West 8th Street
Jacksonville, FL 32209

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Breaking Pain Related News

• Pain Medicine News
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    January 22, 2020

    Physicians who treat facial pain should be competent in all accepted medical modalities, “not just the one they are ‘best’ in,” said a specialist presenting at the 2019 annual...

  • Opioid Use Linked to Potential Constipation Mechanisms
    January 21, 2020

    Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, in Boston, have found that recent opioid use was associated with both defecation dysfunction and rectal hyposensitivity in chronic constipation...

  • Computerized Reminders Increase Laxative Scripts in Opioid Patients
    January 20, 2020

    New research into the use of a computerized order set to prescribe a bowel medication as a part of all opioid regimens was shown to improve the rate of concomitant prescriptions of the two drugs, in...

   
• Nature 
  • Behavioral characterization of a CRISPR-generated TRPA1 knockout rat in models of pain, itch, and asthma
    January 22, 2020

  • Dorsal root ganglion macrophages contribute to both the initiation and persistence of neuropathic pain
    January 14, 2020

  • Gastrointestinal pain
    January 6, 2020

   

• NEW! Meditation Reduced the Opioid Dose She Needs To Ease Chronic Pain By 75%

• Some kids in pain need opioids. For doctors, that means walking a tightrope.

• Evidence-Based Nonpharmacologic Strategies for Comprehensive Pain Care: The Consortium Pain Task Force White Paper

• Drug giants close in on a $50 billion settlement of opioid cases (New York Times)

• Pain and Sedation Scales for Neonatal and Pediatric Patients in a Preverbal Stage of Development: A Systematic Review

• An Amygdalar Neural Ensemble That Encodes the Unpleasantness of Pain

• High-Volume Anesthetic Suboccipital Nerve Blocks for Treatment Refractory Chronic Cluster Headache With Long-Term Efficacy Data: An Observational Case Series Study

• Essential pharmacologic options for acute pain management in the emergency setting

• Engaging Alternative Therapies--Insurers Aren't Helping

• Link to access the E-FORCSE® website: https://florida.pmpaware.net/

• Opioid-Related Critical Care Resource Use in US Children’s Hospitals

• Pediatric Screening Tool Predicts Transformation of Acute Pain to Chronic Pain

• Trigger Point Diagnosis At Last, the First Word on Consensus

• Game On: Virtual Reality as Pain Treatment Shows Promise in Early Trials 

• The Joint Commission Enhances Pain Assessment and Management Requirements for Accredited Hospitals

PAMI News

September 2019:

                   

January 2019:

Pain Management and Opioid Stewardship Education for Florida Medical Schools Framework for Developing Core Competencies & Instructional Guide for Curriculum Development 2018

April 2018:

• American Academy of Pain Medicine 2018 Clinical Predictors for Emergency Department Revisits for Pain; Dr. Sophia Sheikh et al.

January 2018: Pain Week Podcasts

• Why Emergency Departments Love Ketamine
• Child Life 101 for Emergency Departments and Emergency Care Providers
• Case Scenarios in ED Pain Management: Don't Let First Impressions Fool You!
• How to Complete a Rapid Pain Assessment in a Busy ED

Summer 2017:

• Pain Week Journal (PWJ) The Challenges of Assessing Pain in a Busy Emergency Department by Sophia Sheikh & Phyllis Hendry
• Action News Jax reports on the Distraction Toolkit
• Podcast: Cover2 Resources  Dr. Hendry explains how PAMI provides both physicians and patients with free access to pain management education to include videos, dosing guides, and discharge plans to make sure patients are fully aware of their options.
• New 4 Jax interviews Dr. Hendry about our Distraction Toolbox

Spring 2017:

VIDEOs: Pain Week--Expert Opinion

• Emergency Department: Pain Management News 
• Emergency Department: Pain as the Fifth Vital Sign

Drs. Hendry and Sheikh, principle and sub-investigators for PAMI and both of whom work in emergency medicine, discuss pain as the 5th vital sign, what has changed and what needs to change in the ED.

See more at http://www.painweek.org