CHRONIC PAIN: SELF-TEST
1. When assessing the pain patients mental status and affective response to their pain, What questions can be asked and what signs looked for?
2. Which antidepressants can be monitored with blood levels to assess if they are within therapeutic range for depression therapy?
3. What are trigger points and how can they be treated?
4. How effective is TENS in chronic pain conditions?
5. If one opioid does not relieve a patients chronic pain is it worth increasing the dose or changing they type of opioid?
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