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Current Trends in Pain Research: Assessing Pain in Patients With Cognitive Impairments

Thursday, September 1st, 2005

RESEARCH CORNER Edited by Patricia Beat Reisinger, MS, CRRN, FNP-C
Introduction
As spinal cord injury (SCI) nurses we need to be aware of the cognitive impairments in relation to our SCI patient population. Cognitive impairments will be discussed in this article in the form of brain injury and dementia.
Twenty eight percent of patients with […]