PHILADELPHIA -- Acupuncture can relieve pain and reduce return visits to the emergency department (ED) in patients with intractable pain, said a researcher here at the annual meeting of the American ...

Expanding ways to treat eye pain could reduce the burden on the emergency department (ED) and other areas of the health care system. Eye burning, aching, and irritation can all be used to define eye ...

Stress cardiac magnetic resonance imaging use on acute chest pain patients in the emergency department’s observation unit helps to reduce adverse outcomes, according to a study in JACC: Cardiocascular ...

Among patients with non–trauma-related pain, adding music therapy to standard analgesia in the emergency department (ED) reduced pain and anxiety compared with standard care alone. This randomized ...

People who come to the emergency department for chest pain but who have normal cardiac blood tests, vital signs and electrocardiograms are at low short-term risk for life-threatening cardiac events ...

For lower-risk patients with acute myocardial injury already ruled out for their chest pain, an increase in referrals for noninvasive cardiac testing (NICT) was not associated with improved outcomes, ...

Ultrasound-guided nerve blocks performed by emergency practitioners are safe and effective for acute pain management and could form a crucial part of multimodal pain management in the emergency ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Less than one-third of patients who went to the ED with acute sickle cell disease pain received a first opioid ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Health care utilization was higher for women with vs. without chronic pelvic pain. Women with vs. without ...

The goal is not to vilify opioids; they remain an essential tool for managing acute pain and, when used appropriately, can offer tremendous relief. Instead, our aim should be to wield these ...