IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
May 20, 2024
OBJECTIVE: Common pain assessment approaches such as self-evaluation and observation scales are inappropriate for children as they require patients to have reasonable communication ability. Subjective, inconsistent, and discontinuous pain assessment ...
Advances in neonatal care : official journal of the National Association of Neonatal Nurses
May 15, 2024
BACKGROUND: Early-life pain is associated with adverse neurodevelopmental consequences; and current pain assessment practices are discontinuous, inconsistent, and highly dependent on nurses' availability. Furthermore, facial expressions in commonly u...
International journal of medical informatics
May 7, 2024
INTRODUCTION: Pain conditions are common in elderly individuals, including those with dementia. However, symptoms associated with dementia may lead to poor recognition, assessment and management of pain. In this study, we incorporated the variables b...
BACKGROUND: The continuous monitoring and recording of patients' pain status is a major problem in current research on postoperative pain management. In the large number of original or review articles focusing on different approaches for pain assessm...
PURPOSE: Due to improved survival of esophageal cancer patients, long-term quality of life (QoL) is increasingly gaining importance. The aim of this study is to compare QoL outcomes between open Ivor Lewis esophagectomy (Open-E) and a hybrid approach...
An artificial nociceptor, as a critical and special bionic receptor, plays a key role in a bioelectronic device that detects stimuli and provides warnings. However, fully exploiting bioelectronic applications remains a major challenge due to the lack...
BACKGROUND: Thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy (TAO) is the most prevalent autoimmune orbital condition, significantly impacting patients' appearance and quality of life. Early and accurate identification of active TAO along with timely treatment can ...
Understanding, measuring, and mitigating pain-related suffering is a key challenge for both clinical care and pain research. However, there is no consensus on what exactly the concept of pain-related suffering includes, and it is often not precisely ...
PURPOSE: The objective of this study was to perform a retrospective cohort analysis, in which we measured the association of an acute pain service (APS)-driven multimodal analgesia protocol that included preoperative intrathecal morphine (ITM) compar...
Several centers have reported their experience with single-port robot-assisted partial nephrectomy (SP-RAPN); however, it is uncertain if utilization of this platform represents an improvement in outcomes compared to multiport robot-assisted partial...
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