Optimising well-being: Is it the pain or the hurt that matters?

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 91-94

  Body, Richard ^a   Foex, Bernard A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; PROCHLORPERAZINE; TROPONIN;

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ANGER; ANXIETY; ATAXIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; BREATHING RATE; CANCER PAIN; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY PATIENT; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; FEAR; HUMAN; HUMERUS FRACTURE; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEDICINE; NAUSEA; NOCICEPTION; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; OSTEOSARCOMA; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PALLOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PRURITUS; REVIEW; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SHOULDER PAIN; STROKE; SWEATING; TACHYCARDIA; TEMPERATURE; THORAX PAIN; VERTIGO; VITAL SIGN; VOMITING; WELLBEING;

ACUTE PAIN; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HUMANS; NOCICEPTION; PAIN MEASUREMENT;

EID: 84856104286     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2011.111849     Document Type: Review

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