North Shore University Hospital (NSUH) has launched a comprehensive inpatient chronic pain consultation service to ensure that patients with complex pain conditions are provided the highest quality of care. The multidisciplinary team of specialists is specifically trained to diagnose and manage chronic pain patients who undergo surgical procedures or have chronic pain caused by underlying medical conditions such as cancer, musculoskeletal and neurological disorders.
NSUH’s chronic pain consultation service will also work collaboratively with Northwell Health’s Patient & Family Centered Care team, which offers many complementary therapies including reiki therapy, aromatherapy, pet therapy, meditation and guided imagery.The consultation service is staffed by two nurse practitioners, Mary Milano Carter, NP and Maria Giraldo-Sorrentino, NP, along with a team of eight collaborating pain physicians from neurology, anesthesiology and physiatry.
“We have tremendous support from Northwell Health’s acute pain and palliative care services, addiction psychiatry and hospitalists to improve the quality of care and satisfaction of patients and their families,” said Michael Gitman, MD, the hospital’s medical director.
The program was launched under the guidance and leadership of Dr. Gitman; John DiCapua, MD, chairman of anesthesiology; Robert A. Duarte, MD, director of Northwell Health’s Pain Center; Steven Pacia, MD, vice chairman of neurology; and, Adam Stein, MD, chairman of physical medicine and rehabilitation.
Northwell Health providers will be able to initiate a chronic pain consultation through the health system’s Sunrise database. “The consultation will provide the most comprehensive pain evaluation offering a detailed assessment with recommendations from appropriate pain medicine prescribing to complementary interventions,” said Dr. Duarte. “In addition to the initial consult, chronic pain patients will be followed throughout their hospital stay. Upon discharge, continuity of care with an outpatient provider will be arranged.”
Submitted by Northwell Health.
This is just an attempt to label anyone desperate enough to go to the ER as a last resort for human empathy , or compassion to be labeled as a addict, drug seeker, OUD,or having a mental disorder, this has nothing to do with treating a humans pain, they have no intention on treating any living beings pain, they want to refer you to a Subox clinic, and get kick backs for the referrals,or for each rescue ” MAT” drug they hand out, to those suffering in physical pain oh wait; the mental disease of of physical pain. This hospital is a disgrace and is has broken the broken the sacred bond of ” do no harm”, because I can guarantee you, they are doing great harm by ecnoring human suffering, by offering 3d head gear, yoga, and pain acceptance; ( mental illness acceptable).
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I love pets. They make me very happy. They do not help my ‘acute chronic’ pain at all.
I live incense, especially sandalwood and patchouli. Very pleasing scents. It does not help my pain at all.
Reiki is mumbo-jumbo Eastern mysticism and does not help inflamed, compressed, or damaged nerves AT ALL.
Meditation requires deep relaxation that is not possible when your pain level is at 7-9 on the 10-scale 24/7/365.
Guided imagery is mumbo-jumbo Western mysticism and does not help inflamed, compressed, or damaged nerves AT ALL.
Psychiatry is contra-indicated for a person who is down in the dumps due to relentless, excruciating pain…ELIMINATE THE PAIN AND WATCH THE PROPER CHEERY MOOD RETIRN…or even EXCEED what it was before one fell into the vast abyss of untreated pain, stigma, ridicule, and ostracism of this 100% FAKE opioid ‘crisis.’
There IS NO crisis. Even if all 70,000 supposed deaths in Senator Manchin’s Bill were due to prescription painkillers (it is less than 1/3 of that per the CDC), that is 0.02% of the US population and by no definition on earth is that a crisis or epidemic.
Until you and everyone else start reporting the truth, people are going to die from untreated pain. Untreated pain can cause stress-induced cardiac arrest, and many untreated or undertreated pain sufferers are resorting to suicide because WE CAN’T GET PAINKILLERS TO MANAGE OUR PAIN.
That other CRAP is GARBAGE.
Pain patients are not looking to get stoned, they are looking to get out of bed, out of the recliner, out of the house, out of the wheelchair, out of handicap parking spaces, out of public scorn, out of the media’s crosshairs, out of the DEA’s thug clutches, off the couch, off the walker, off the cane, and back into our former lives, our families’ lives, our friends’ lives, our livelihoods, the stands at our kids’ and grandkids’ ball games, and back into our hobbies.
Please GOD, WON’T ANYONE CARE?