Pain management

Paper Summary:

In the paper, the writer examines the growing demand by patients suffering from chronic pain for pain management and relief treatments that will improve the quality of their lives. The writer contends that America's rapidly growing population of Seniors, coupled with increased longevity is the reason for this demand and examines some of the solutions that doctors are able to provide. The author then examines the growth of specialized care in pain management and the current system for subspecialty certification for physicians, before making his final conclusions and recommendations.

Outline:
Introduction
Specialized Pain Management Growth
Increased Opportunity For Care
Current Opportunity for Specialization in Pain Management/Proposed AA System
Conclusion
References

From the Paper:

"The current system for subspecialty certification for physicians, in pain medicine comes in the form of an annual exam offered by the ABPM. The organization certifies about 2200 physicians per year in this specialty through the successful completion of the exam, which has about an 80% pass rate. (ABPM, 2008, NP) It would be conducive to structure the AA system in a similar manner with the inclusion of preparatory post grad fellowship continuing education opportunities. Individual AA's who took the seminar style two semester prep classes, and who were signed off by a governing anesthesiologist or their work institution as working within this field successfully for greater than one year would be eligible to sit for the exam and would then be certified in the subspecialty of pain medicine if success was achieved on the exam. All preparation would also qualify the individual for continuing education credits, toward their general licensure and facility requirements. Some legislation for a broadening of services offered might also be needed to alter the current state of allowable practical functions of an AA. The development of such legislative changes would likely be welcomed, as cost reduction seems to be the rule of the day with regard to medical care and spending, and this would likely improve the availability and reduce the cost of procedures significantly."

Sample of Sources Used:

• American Board of Pain Medicine Website. Retrieved February, 21, 2008 from: http://www.abpm.org/
• Bandlow, D. (1995). M.D. Monopoly: How Nurses Can Help Relieve Spiraling Health-Care Costs. Policy Review, (74), 89.
• Block, A. R., Kremer, E. F., & Fernandez, E. (Eds.). (1999). Handbook of Pain Syndromes: Biopsychosocial Perspectives. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• Block, A. R. (1996). Presurgical Psychological Screening in Chronic Pain Syndromes: A Guide for the Behavioral Health Practitioner. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• Boom Careers for the Coming Years. (1994, February). Black Enterprise, 24, 79+.

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