Tracy Harrison
How to Set Expectations in Acute Pain
The patient's ability to perform activities after a surgical procedure or while hospitalized with a medical condition is an important...
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Here you'll see a list of posts for your information regarding all aspects of pain management. Interested in reading about a certain topic? Let me know of a certain topic you'd like me to cover or a problem you are encountering, whether you are a healthcare provider or an individual with acute or chronic pain.
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Tracy Harrison
- Jun 5, 2022
- 7 min
A Systematic Approach to Intense Pain
Management of intense pain does not need to be challenging. If you take a thoughtful approach to addressing the various components that...
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Tracy Harrison
- Feb 26, 2022
- 7 min
Taking the Pain Out of (Your Own) Pain Management
Being an anesthesiologist, I can say from experience that many individuals are more concerned with the pain they might experience after a...
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Tracy Harrison
- Nov 2, 2021
- 5 min
7 Principles to Improve Perioperative Pain Management
Whether you are a provider taking care of patients after a surgical procedure or YOU are the individual having surgery, there are some...
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Tracy Harrison
- Aug 27, 2021
- 5 min
Everything to Know About Pre-operative Use of Acetaminophen for Pain
The proper management of acute pain after a surgical procedure, physical trauma, or in those with an acute painful medical condition is...
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Tracy Harrison
- Jul 12, 2021
- 8 min
Manage Your Sickle Cell Pain Care Skills
From Pedia Pain Focus podcase dated October 29, 2018 with Anjana Kundu MD https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/...
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Tracy Harrison
- Jun 25, 2021
- 7 min
Non-pharmacologic Strategies for Pain Management
A pain management plan for acute pain often includes medications but non-medicine strategies should always be considered as an integral...
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Tracy Harrison
- Jun 6, 2021
- 7 min
All You Need To Know about Postoperative Pain
Whether you are a healthcare provider or an individual who is facing surgery, you need to know of the efforts that are dedicated to...
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Tracy Harrison
- May 30, 2021
- 9 min
What You Need to Know About Opioid-Sparing Techniques
Interest in strategies to minimize the intraoperative and postoperative use of opioids has skyrocketed over the past 5 years. With the...
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Tracy Harrison
- Apr 29, 2021
- 11 min
12 Things to Know About Chronic Pain
I recently had the privilege of being invited to speak on 'Ask the Mayo Mom', a Facebook Live event with Dr. Angela Mattke, a...
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Tracy Harrison
- Apr 19, 2021
- 7 min
5 Ways to Start 'Seeing' Pain
The condition of pain is a universally-experienced phenomenon. With 20% of adults and 20-30% of children throughout the world with a...
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Tracy Harrison
- Apr 10, 2021
- 7 min
How to Increase Happiness With Your Pain Management Skills
Critical assessment of our pain management skills is challenging. Here I review some of the common pitfalls of our current situation.
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Tracy Harrison
- Apr 7, 2021
- 3 min
Let's Talk About Pain (with our colleagues)
It's difficult to talk about pain although it is everywhere. Although improvements have been made over the past 3o years, pain continues...
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Tracy Harrison
- Mar 30, 2021
- 6 min
How Anesthesiologists Pre-empt Pain
Regional Anesthesia / Local Anesthesia Optimal pain management is the responsibility of every caregiver who encounters the patient. ...
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Tracy Harrison
- Mar 27, 2021
- 3 min
PreEmpt Pain App. Exercise 4.
Regional Anesthesia / Local Anesthesia An integral aspect of a pain management plan is consideration of all strategies to treat pain and...
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Tracy Harrison
- Mar 21, 2021
- 4 min
PreEmpt Pain App. Exercise 3. Pain Scales.
Knowing which pain scale to use for your patients is an important aspect of pain assessment. Consistency in the use of the scales and...
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Tracy Harrison
- Mar 16, 2021
- 3 min
Pediatric Patients Need Appropriate Pain Management After Surgery
A summary of a rebuttal from pediatric pain experts (Agarwal, Hays, Chidambaran) regarding opioid use A November 2020 article in JAMA...
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Tracy Harrison
- Mar 12, 2021
- 3 min
The Week In Pain Review. March 08.
Here are some activities / articles that have come to my awareness over the last week. Proactive Pain Solutions on Clubhouse Clubhouse is...
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Tracy Harrison
- Mar 11, 2021
- 3 min
PreEmpt Pain App. Exercise 2. The Quick Plan.
This next exercise for the PreEmpt Pain smartphone app jumps right into the most valuable asset of the clinical decision tool - a plan...
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Tracy Harrison
- Mar 8, 2021
- 7 min
PreEmpt Pain App. Exercise 1. Demographics.
This is the first of several exercises to introduce you to the clinical decision tool I am developing for the non-pain provider. PreEmpt...
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