In an effort to help clinicians provide better, more personalized pain management care, a Harvard-MIT research team announced last week the creation of an AI deep reinforcement learning algorithm for critical care pain management. Full story.
The Benioff Children's Hospital at the University of California, San Francisco integrative pediatric pain and palliative care — or IP3 — team is sort of an emergency response team for pain that combines traditional pharmaceutical [...]
The development of a less invasive technique to precisely control the activity of neurons nestled deep in the brain could help usher in the next-generation of noninvasive brain stimulation technologies.Full story.
Who defines the role of pain specialists? Do you qualify as one, and do the courts agree? Inside the legal requirements. Full story.
Brief Summary: The MOCAS Study aims to describe the mechanisms through which sleep deficiency affects youth responses to an online pain self-management intervention over a 6-month period. The study is a single arm trial with [...]
Brief Summary: The goal of this study is to determine if mind body therapies can help people suffering from chronic back pain. The study is a randomized, partially blinded trial examining the effectiveness of mind [...]
NIH has issued a Request for Information to gather input from the scientific research and medical education communities and the general public regarding the Centers for Excellence in Pain Education (CoEPEs) program, general pain, opioid [...]
In this review, we reconstruct the available basic science and clinical literature that offers support for mechanisms of both paresthesia spinal cord stimulation (P-SCS) and paresthesia-free spinal cord stimulation (PF-SCS). Read the details.
Background: Sympathetic dysfunction may be present in complex regional pain syndrome, and sympathetic blocks are routinely performed in practice. To investigate the therapeutic and predictive values of sympathetic blocks, the authors test the hypotheses that [...]
Abstract: Opioid overprescribing is a key contributor to the current crisis. Changing how ethics is taught in connection with opioid prescribing is one area for improvement. In US medical schools, current training in ethics and [...]
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