Sökning: "Pain descriptors"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 avhandlingar innehållade orden Pain descriptors.
1. Craniofacial pain of cardiac origin : an interdisciplinary study
Sammanfattning : Referred pain is frequently associated with misdiagnosis and unnecessary therapy directed to the pain location instead of its origin. When craniofacial pain is the sole symptom of myocardial ischemia, failure to recognize its cardiac source can endanger the patient. LÄS MER
2. Acute pain in pedatric patients : aspects of pain management and pain assessment
Sammanfattning : Despite advances in pain management, children's pain continue to be frequently unrecognized, dismissed and ineffectively managed while children are hospitalized. The overall purpose of this thesis was to evaluate and improve pain management and pain assessment among pediatric patients with acute pain. LÄS MER
3. Neuropathic Pain; Quality of Life, Sensory Assessments and Pharmacological Treatments
Sammanfattning : Neuropathic pain of central and peripheral origin presents a substantial clinical problem as it is often resistant to pharmacological treatment.The health related quality of life of 126 patients with peripheral neuropathic pain was studied, to provide a cross sectional description from this point of view. LÄS MER
4. Dynamic mechanical allodynia in peripheral neuropathic pain : psychological observations
Sammanfattning : Introduction and aim: Pain due to a light moving mechanical stimulus, dynamic mechanical allodynia, is a protruding symptom/sign in subgroups of patients with peripheral neuropathic pain and frequently as troublesome as spontaneous ongoing pain. The objective of this thesis was to survey psychophysical details of dynamic mechanical allodynia using a novel semi-quantitative method. LÄS MER
5. Third stage of labour-studies on management, blood loss and pain in Angola and Sweden
Sammanfattning : Management of the third stage of labour and risk factors for blood loss have been the focus of investigation for a long time. The overall aim of this thesis was to investigate management of the third stage of labour and its infl uence on blood loss and women’s experience of afterpains in both a low- and a high-income country, as well as midwives’ experience of managing this stage. LÄS MER