Pain is one of the most common reasons people seek help from paramedics and other healthcare professionals. Do we take it seriously? Could we be doing better? James sits down with paramedicine luminary and pain researcher A/Prof Bill Lord for a three-part series on pain.

In Episode 2, we look at best practice in the management of pain.

Further resources

⁠Acute Pain Management: Scientific Evidence: 5th Edition⁠

⁠Ketamine for the treatment of prehospital acute pain: a systematic review of benefit and harm⁠

⁠Pain relief that matters to patients: systematic review of empirical studies assessing the minimum clinically important difference in acute pain⁠

⁠Ambulance call triage outcomes for patients reporting pain: a retrospective cross-sectional analysis of pain score versus triage level⁠

⁠Chronic pain in the paramedic practice setting – a qualitative study of patients’ perspective⁠

⁠Influence of patient race on administration of analgesia by student paramedics⁠

⁠Report on Government Services 2024⁠

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