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Do patients with thalamic pain have a specific somatosensory phenotype? (P1.222)
Conclusions:The somatosensory phenotype of the CPSP patients was characterized by reduced sensation for vibration and light touch on the affected side. These patients showed mechanical hyperalgesia and more pronounced hypoesthesia, but no temperature perception abnormalities, compared to the control patients. Our results do not support the view that a specific dysfunction of the spinothalamic tract is involved in the pathogenesis of thalamic CPSP.Disclosure: Dr. Papadopoulou has nothing to disclose. Dr. Magon has nothing to disclose. Dr. Gaetano has received personal compensation for activities with Novartis Pharmaceutical...
Source: Neurology - April 17, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: Papadopoulou, A., Magon, S., Gaetano, L., Jaeger, Y., Kappos, L., Sprenger, T. Tags: Pain and Palliative Care Source Type: research

Lasting Relief from Chronic Pain after Cerebral Infarction (P02.005)
CONCLUSIONS: This patient's stroke appeared to produce the beneficial and persistent effect of dramatic pain relief, enabling him to discontinue all analgesic medications, including methadone. The alleviation of pain after ischemic infarction is highly unusual, and possible explanations include 1) damage to both anterior cingulate gyri producing apathy of such severity that the experience of pain was markedly blunted, and 2) bilateral injury to the nucleus accumbens abolishing a cerebral region critical for the appreciation of pain and opiate-related reward.Disclosure: Dr. Burke has nothing to disclose. Dr. Anderson's spou...
Source: Neurology - February 14, 2013 Category: Neurology Authors: Burke, H., Anderson, C., Filley, C. Tags: P02 Ethics, Pain, and Palliative Care Source Type: research

Cochrane ' s 30 under 30: Ndi Euphrasia Ebai-Atuh
Cochrane is made up of  13,000 members and over 50,000 supporters come from more than 130 countries, worldwide. Our volunteers and contributors are researchers, health professionals, patients, carers, people passionate about improving health outcomes for everyone, everywhere.Cochrane is an incredible community of people who all play their part in improving health and healthcare globally. We believe that by putting trusted evidence at the heart of health decisions we can achieve a world of improved health for all.  Many  of our contributors are young people working with Cochrane as researchers, citizen scientists...
Source: Cochrane News and Events - April 12, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lydia Parsonson Source Type: news

Improving Access to Specialist Palliative Care for Patients with Catastrophic Strokes: A Quality Improvement Project to Trigger Inpatient Palliative Care Consultations (QI730)
The American Stroke Association strongly recommends palliative care for patients hospitalized with catastrophic strokes to improve shared decision-making and relieve suffering. An automatic trigger to consider a consult for these patients may improve access to palliative care. The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) is a good predictor of short- and long-term outcomes and high scores (>= 20) are associated with poorer prognosis.
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - February 23, 2021 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Vandana Nagpal, Marcey Osgood, Jennifer Reidy Source Type: research

Hospice Composition Based on Diagnosis is Associated with Caregiver-Reported Quality Measures
Conclusion: Hospices that cared for a greater proportion of dementia and stroke patients had poorer scores on caregiver-reported quality measures. These findings support efforts to identify mechanisms underlying these differences and to design strategies to ensure optimal outcomes for hospice patients regardless of diagnosis.PMID:35442840 | DOI:10.1177/10499091221088497
Source: The American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care - April 20, 2022 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Sulaiman Alshakhs Elisabeth Sweet Elizabeth Luth M C Reid Charles R Henderson Veerawat Phongtankuel Source Type: research

Futility, Miracles, and Religion: A Game Theory Display of a Medical Ethics Dilemma (P02.006)
CONCLUSIONS: Although this situation does not describe a Prisoner's Dilemma, that game theory format of payoff presentation demonstrates that ethical dilemmas in clinical medicine (such as this described situation involving futility and religious belief in miraculous healing) can be illustrated and the issues focused when displayed using a perceived payoff format.Disclosure: Dr. Riggs has nothing to disclose.
Source: Neurology - February 14, 2013 Category: Neurology Authors: Riggs, J. Tags: P02 Ethics, Pain, and Palliative Care Source Type: research

157 E-Books New to JEFFLINE
Scott Library added these 157 e-books to the growing collection in May and June: Accurate Results in the Clinical Laboratory Adult Emergency Medicine Adult-Gerontology and Family Nurse Practitioner Certification Examination (4th ed.) Advanced Assessment: Interpreting Findings and Formulating Differential Diagnoses (2nd ed.) Advancing Your Career: Concepts of Professional Nursing (5th ed.) Arrhythmia Essentials Atlas of Advanced Operative Surgery Atlas of Clinical Neurology (3rd ed.) Atlas of Hematopathology: Morphology, Immunophenotype, Cytogenetics, and Molecular Approaches Atlas of Human Infectious Diseases Atlas of No...
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - June 25, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Gary Kaplan Tags: All News Clinicians Researchers Students Teaching Faculty Source Type: news

If you could propose one idea to help improve health care delivery in the United States, what would it be?
Thumbnail: Tags: conversationsphrma conversationslarry hausnermyrl weinbergchris hansennancy brownContributors: 11621161115911631173Contributions: Read Larry Hausner's bio Despite the rapid development of innovative technologies in the health care field, we have yet to discover a panacea that will easily transform our health care system into one that provides high-quality and cost-effective care.  What we have discovered and come to agree on over the last decade is that our sick care system must be reconfigured to a health care system that emphasizes wellness and prevention.  For that reason, I offer ...
Source: PHRMA - June 24, 2013 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: rlowe Source Type: news

A rare cause of headache-the importance of a tissue diagnosis and perseverance
A 64 year old diabetic hypertensive milkman presented in September 2011 with 4 months progressive constant right frontotemporal retro–orbital pain. It was worse at night affecting sleep with slight right field blurring and later vomiting. Full examination including blood pressure was normal with acuities 6/9. Tension type headache was considered. Initial brain CT was reported as normal. With concern about giant cell arteritis steroids were trialled although ESR was 8 and CRP 25 with no other clinical features: pain reduction was short–lived and temporal artery biopsy negative. Symptoms worsened despite analgesi...
Source: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry - October 9, 2013 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Defty, H., Cavazza, A., Warner, G. Tags: Immunology (including allergy), Cranial nerves, Headache (including migraine), Neurooncology, Pain (neurology), Stroke, Hypertension, CNS cancer, Ophthalmology, Pain (palliative care), Anxiety disorders (including OCD and PTSD), Radiology, Disability, Dru Source Type: research

Music gives people a voice when words fail them at the end of their lives | Bob Heath
A music therapist describes how improvising songs can open a vital channel of communication in palliative careAll that was dear to me, down below the seaI cannot hold this piece of driftwoodWhen life abandons meLiz, a patient at the Sobell House hospice, 2013In palliative care, when clients and their therapists get to know one another they do so with a shared knowledge, whether voiced or not, that while both of them are going to die eventually, at least one of them is going to be doing it very soon.The relationship between client and therapist is always unique. And whatever you may think about "therapy", all (or most) of i...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 5, 2013 Category: Science Tags: Psychology theguardian.com Music Health Medical research & wellbeing Society Life and style Editorial Science Source Type: news

Pathways to palliative care for patients with chronic kidney disease
ConclusionHealthcare professionals' beliefs, values and knowledge of palliative care influence their end‐of‐life care decisions. The influence of patient, family and clinicians involves negotiation and equivocation. Health professionals support the early discussion of end‐of‐life care in CKD at predialysis education to enable clearer decision making.
Source: Journal of Renal Care - January 18, 2014 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Rosalind Bull, Loren Youl, Iain K. Robertson, Rose Mace, Sarah Challenor, Robert G. Fassett Tags: Original Research Source Type: research

Long-term aspirin use and neovascular age-related macular degeneration: association or causation?
Commentary on: Liew G, Mitchell P, Wong TY, et al.. The association of aspirin use with age-related macular degeneration. JAMA Intern Med 2013;173:258–64. Context Aspirin is used by many for temporary pain relief, rheumatological conditions and where indicated, cardioprotection. However, recent findings from observational studies have raised the possibility that regular aspirin use may also increase the risk of some forms of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Methods Liew and colleagues examined the relationship between long-term, low-dose aspirin use and risk of AMD in an Australian population-based cohort of 2...
Source: Evidence-Based Medicine - January 22, 2014 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Christen, W. G. Tags: EBM Aetiology, Smoking and tobacco, Epidemiologic studies, Immunology (including allergy), Drugs: cardiovascular system, Pain (neurology), Stroke, Hypertension, Ophthalmology, Pain (palliative care), Pain (anaesthesia), Diabetes, Health education, Smoking Source Type: research

Emerging Subspecialties in Neurology: Palliative care
As we work to find cures for so many devastating neurologic injuries and diseases, our patients suffer tremendously on a daily basis. Individuals with conditions including stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson disease (PD), muscular dystrophies, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and nervous system malignancies share a host of physical, emotional, and existential symptoms that can be difficult to treat. In addition, patients and their families face the realities of loss of function, loss of ability to communicate, and lifespans limited by the neurologic diagnosis or complications related to it (e.g., dysphagia, immobilit...
Source: Neurology - February 17, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Dallara, A., Tolchin, D. W. Tags: All Clinical Neurology, All Education, Palliative care RESIDENT AND FELLOW SECTION Source Type: research