Nurses: Pain affects everything else
Posted on: Monday, 14 September 2009, 18:08 CDT
Two U.S. nurses say they've determined through research that pain management is not only a matter of compassion, but a medical necessity for patients to heal.
Gayle Page of the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing in Baltimore calls pain an exquisite stressor
affecting mood, sleep, the abilities to heal, and to fend off infection and illnesses.
Page and colleague Sharon Kozachik are seeking to clarify both the nature and the effects of pain on body systems and processes by studying laboratory animal models.
There's a fine line to walk between pain that's managed and pain that damages,
Kozachik said in a statement. The challenge inherent in our research is to identify those tipping points so we can avoid them in our clinical care of patients in pain.
Page says the distance from the research bench to the bedside is closer than some may think and their animal studies are showing the mechanisms of pain and the body systems make pain management key in improving human health.
Source: United Press International
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