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  • Pain and Analgesia
    • Understanding pain
    • Assessing a patient with pain
      • Overview of assessing a patient with pain
      • Determining the onset and timing of pain
      • Location of pain
      • Description of pain
      • Patient-reported pain severity
      • Factors that aggravate pain
      • Factors that relieve pain
      • Impact of pain on a patient’s function
      • Medication history
      • Examining a patient with pain
      • Performing investigations in a patient with pain
      • Additional considerations when assessing pain in children and adolescents
      • Additional considerations when assessing pain in older people
      • Additional considerations when assessing pain in people with impaired cognition
      • Additional considerations when assessing pain in people with known or suspected substance misuse
      • References
        • Key references: Overview of assessing a patient with pain
        • Key references: Description of pain
        • Key references: Patient-reported pain severity
        • Key references: Impact of pain on a patient’s function
        • Key references: Performing investigations in a patient with pain
        • Key references: Additional considerations when assessing pain in children and adolescents
        • Key references: Additional considerations when assessing pain in older people
        • Key references: Additional considerations when assessing pain in people with impaired cognition
        • Key references: Additional considerations when assessing pain in people with known or suspected substance misuse
    • General principles of acute pain management
    • Nonpharmacological management of acute pain
    • Pharmacological management of acute pain
    • Pain management in specific populations
    • Procedural sedation and analgesia
    • The transition from acute to chronic pain
    • General principles of chronic pain management
    • Psychological techniques for managing pain
    • Physical activity and managing chronic pain
    • Social connection and chronic pain
    • The role of analgesics in chronic noncancer pain
    • Invasive procedures to manage chronic pain
    • Managing specific pain syndromes
    • Drugs used for pain

Key references: Overview of assessing a patient with pain

  • Lord SM, Kepreotes EA. Pain in adolescence: a time of vulnerability and opportunity. Pain Manag Today 2017;4(1):6–14. https://painmanagementtoday.com.au/2017/may/feature-article/pain-adolescence-time-vulnerability-and-opportunity
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