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Volume 7 Journal of Pain & Relief
ISSN: 2167-0846 Pain Management 2018
October 11-12, 2018
October 11-12, 2018 | Zurich, Switzerland
7th International Conference and Exhibition on
Pain Research and Management
The computerization of pain management in line with pain scoring system
Rahali Lawali
Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria
Pain is an unpleasant sensation that can be multiple or single; it is multiple if it involves physical, psychological, cultural, social
and spiritual pain. But it is single when it involves only one of these. Opioids remained as the first-drug of choice for the
treatment of moderate to severe pain, a privilege that gives morphine double standards over the rest of analgesic drugs; it also
becomes the gold standard against which other opioids are measured. Knowing the intensity of pain is an essential parameter
upon which the appropriate treatment of pain rely on, a reason for which various scales were introduced for measuring pain
intensity, such as: pain numeric rating scale, hand scale, facial scale, flacc scale, touch visual pain scale, each affected by one
of the following barriers: age, health condition, knowledge of interpretation and differentiation, training. Hence, there is need
to computerize pain management in form of a chart that will nearly cut across all barriers and interconnect all the basic
parameters of pain management, such as: assessment of health problems, measurement of pain expressions, pharmacological
and non-pharmacological treatments. Although, pain is subjective and measurement of pure pain is generally impossible, there
is still a means of verifying standard pain.
J Pain Relief 2018, Volume 7
DOI: 10.4172/2167-0846-C1-021