Anesthesia and Analgesia

St. Joe’s aims for safe use of opioids in pain manageme
St. Joe’s aims for safe use of opioids in
pain management

A nurse at St. Joseph’s Health Centre accesses one of our standardized, colour-coded narcotics cupboards. (Photo credit: Lauren Pelley) A big part of our job at St. Joseph’s Health Centre is minimizing the pain experienced by patients during their hospital ...

Posted: March 27, 2013|Addictions and Drugs, Anesthesia and Analgesia, Uncategorized|0 comments

PRHC’s specialty Pain Clinic expands to serve additional patients
PRHC’s specialty Pain Clinic expands to serve
additional patients

PRHC patient Kendra Shaughnessy receives an epidural steroid injection from RN Kathy Drumm (L) and anaesthesiologist Dr. Bharat Maini. Kendra Shaughnessy was thrilled to hear in early 2013 that she would at long last have access to PRHC’s Pain Clinic ...

Posted: March 20, 2013|Anesthesia and Analgesia|0 comments

Making connections to understand and manage pain
Making connections to understand and manage pain

Are you in pain? How’s your pain today? On a scale of zero to ten, ten being the worst pain, how would you rate your pain? These are all fairly common questions for those who work in healthcare and treat patients on a ...

Posted: March 12, 2012|Anesthesia and Analgesia, Patient Care|0 comments

Personalized approaches to treatment improving outcomes in arthritis
Personalized approaches to treatment improving outcomes
in arthritis

At Mount Sinai Hospital, Drs. Kathy Siminovitch and Edward Keystone are using genetic information to uncover the causes and best course of therapy in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Mount Sinai’s researchers and clinicians are using genetic information to uncover the causes ...

Posted: March 12, 2012|Anesthesia and Analgesia, Patient Care, Research|0 comments

Stollery Clinic helps pediatric patients manage their chronic pain
Stollery Clinic helps pediatric patients manage their
chronic pain

As a researcher, Kathy Reid has found that patients have already seen up to nine other medical care providers to discuss their chronic pain before coming to the Stollery Pediatric Chronic Pain Clinic. As a nurse practitioner, she hopes the ...

Posted: March 12, 2012|Anesthesia and Analgesia, Featured, Patient Care, Pediatrics|0 comments

When pain just won’t go away
When pain just won’t go away

When clients tell Betty Downey they have pain, she accepts them at their word. “If a patient says it hurts, it hurts. We don’t live in their body.” Chronic pain is an area that has intrigued this registered nurse for many years, ...

Posted: March 9, 2012|Anesthesia and Analgesia, Innovation and Technology, Patient Care|0 comments

Pain management in patients with ALS
Pain management in patients with ALS

Pain is one of the least acknowledged symptoms of people living with ALS. More than 60 per cent of people living with ALS will admit to experiencing significant pain, varying in terms of intensity and etiology. • Neuropathic pain: arising as ...

Posted: March 8, 2012|Anesthesia and Analgesia, Diseases, Patient Care|0 comments

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