Aichi Koseiren-Aihoku Hospital has implemented a New Glucose Monitoring System,using Precision PCx and its data management application, QC Manager (both Abbott Japan), for outpatient testing. It utilizes the advantages that have come with the introduction of the Ordering System. The new system has automated a great portion of glucose monitoring workflow and reduced the human work, and consequently, the potential risk of malfunction due to human errors. The system has been designed and developed to meet the following criteria; To be able to fully utilize the potential capabilities of the Ordering System (Barcode recognition of test samples); To be capable of transferring test results automatically to the Laboratory Information System without being handled by human; To improve the productivity as a whole system; To possess the precision and accuracy;and To be handled easily for bed-side use.
System ; Human ; Monitor ; Glucose measurement ; Following

PUPPOSE: The purpose of this study is to determine the level of pain related to a blood sugar test. Specifically, the study attempts to compare the varying degree of pains when different types of blood sugar test are used. METHOD: A sample of 56 subjects is composed of DM patients admitted to a medical ward of C university hospital in Gwangju. Data were collected from July, 2001 to December, 2001. The blood sugar tests were administered in four different ways: (1) the use of 27G needle only, (2) the use of 27G needle followed by ice-packed treatment, (3) the use of 27G needle after EMLA cream application, and (4) the use of lancet. The degree of pain is measured with a visual analogue scale and performed twice. RESULT: In both measures, the use of 27G needle only method is shown to cause the highest level of pain in comparison with the rest of methods (F=4.01, p=.01; F=8.14, p=.00). However, the differences in pain between time in all methods were not found to be significant (t=-.85, p=.40; t=.80, p=.42; t=.31, p=.75; t=.19, p=.85). CONCLUSION: The study results indicate that the method using lanceter is more recommendable than the use of 27G needle only method. Further research is needed to support the current study result with the use of different measurement scales and to determine effective methods of blood sugar test to lower pain and compliance.
Blood Glucose* ; Compliance ; Gwangju ; Humans ; Needles ; Pain Measurement ; Weights and Measures

PURPOSE: This study attempts to compare the degree of pain when different methods of blood sugar test are used between a DM patient group and a healthy group. METHOD: A sample is composed of 56 DM patients and 57 their family who are admitted in a ward of C university hospital in Gwangju. Data were collected from July, 2001 to December, 2001. The blood sugar tests are administered four different ways. The degree of pain is measured twice with a visual analog scale in a week interval. RESULT: The differences in the degree of pain according to methods of blood sugar test were not found between the DM patient group and the healthy group in both measures. The only use of a 27G needle method was shown to cause highest level of pain in comparison with the rest of methods in the first measure of the DM patient group and in both the measures of the healthy group. CONCLUSION: The study results indicate that the method using lanceter is more recommendable than method of using a 27G needle. Furthermore, the ice therapy and EMLA cream is likely to be more effective on the pain relief in the healthy group than the DM patient group.
Blood Glucose* ; Gwangju ; Humans ; Ice ; Methods* ; Needles ; Pain Measurement ; Visual Analog Scale

OBJECTIVETo investigate the relationship between blood glucose fluctuation and the pain sensation in patients with painful diabetic neuropathy.

METHODSThe severity of pain in 16 patients with painful diabetic neuropathy was assessed using visual analog scale (VAS), and according to the results, the patients were divided into mild to moderate pain group and severe pain group. The blood glucose of the patients were monitored continuously for 72 h using a continuous glucose monitoring system, and the MBG, SD, DMMG, MAGE, and AUCPG were obtained with the FBG and HbA1C tested.

RESULTSThe SD, DMMG, and MAGE of the severe pain group were all significantly higher than those of the mild to moderate pain group (P<0.05), and no significant difference was found in MBG, FBG or HbA1c between the two groups.

CONCLUSIONThe blood glucose fluctuation is associated with the severity of the pain degree, and effective control of the blood glucose fluctuation helps prevent and treat painful diabetic neuropathy.

Adult ; Blood Glucose ; metabolism ; Diabetic Neuropathies ; blood ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Monitoring, Physiologic ; methods ; Pain ; blood ; etiology ; Pain Measurement ; Pain Threshold

BACKGROUNDPrevious brain imaging studies suggested that the brain activity underlying the perception of chronic pain may differ from that underlying acute pain. To investigate the brain regions involved in chronic spontaneous pain due to brachial plexus avulsion (BPA), fluorine-(18)fluorodeoxyglucose ((18)F-FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) scanning was applied to determine the glucose metabolic changes in patients with pain due to BPA.

METHODSSix right-handed patients with chronic spontaneous pain due to left-BPA and twelve right-handed age- and sex-matched healthy control subjects participated in the (18)F-FDG PET study. The patients were rated by visual analog scale (VAS) during scanning and Hamilton depression scale and Hamilton anxiety scale after scanning. Statistical parametric mapping 2 (SPM2) was applied for data analysis.

RESULTSCompared with healthy subjects, the patients had significant glucose metabolism decreases in the right thalamus and SI (P < 0.001, uncorrected), and significant glucose metabolism increases in the right orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) (BA11), left rostral insula cortex and left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) (BA10/46) (P < 0.001, uncorrected).

CONCLUSIONThese findings suggest that the brain areas involved in emotion, attention and internal modulation of pain may be related to the chronic spontaneous pain due to BPA.

Adult ; Brachial Plexus ; injuries ; Brain ; metabolism ; Chronic Disease ; Female ; Glucose ; metabolism ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Pain ; etiology ; physiopathology ; Pain Measurement ; Positron-Emission Tomography ; methods ; Prefrontal Cortex ; metabolism ; Thalamus ; metabolism

PURPOSE: This study was done to provide data for a nursing intervention to alleviate newborn pain clinically by investigating the effect of oral glucose. METHODS: Subjects were newborns hospitalized in the nursery. Informed consent was obtained from parents of 60 newborns. A heel stick was carried out for a test on 3 groups; the experimental, placebo, and control group. The Neonatal infant pain scale(NIPS), respiration rate, heart rate, peripheral oxygen partial pressure(SpO2), and crying duration were measured to assess pain reaction. All neonatal behaviors were recorded on videotape. RESULTS: There were significant differences in pain behavior during stimulus(F=4.195, p=.020), pain behavior immediately after blood-sampling (F=4.114, p=.021), and pain behavior 3 minutes after that (F=3.630, p=.033). However, there were no significant differences in heart rate, respiration rate, peripheral oxygen partial pressure or crying duration after the heel stick among the groups. CONCLUSIONS: Oral administration of glucose before a heel stick caused the reduction of neonatal pain behavior, which means that it has an effect of pain relief.
Administration, Oral ; Blood Specimen Collection ; Female ; Glucose/administration & dosage/*therapeutic use ; Heart Rate ; Heel ; Humans ; Infant, Newborn ; Male ; Neonatal Nursing/*methods ; Oximetry ; Pain/nursing/*prevention & control ; Pain Measurement ; Placebos ; Punctures/adverse effects ; Respiration ; Time Factors

The article reviewed clinical studies on painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy (PDPN) treated by integrative medicine. PDPN, a common complication of diabetes mellitus, which could severely influence patients' quality of life. The keystone and difficulty of PDPN treatment is to relieve pain. Tricyclic anti-depressants are the firstline agents for neuropathic pain but with obvious adverse reactions. Antiepileptic drugs and capsicin can relieve PDPN with less adverse reactions. In recent years, lots of report of clinical studies on DPN treated by TCM or integrative medicine were issued, but those pertinent to PDPN were seldom. Only the papers with independent statistical analysis on effect of pain relieving were selected to review in this article, and the authors presumed that it is feasible to treat PDPN with integrative medicine.
Amines ; therapeutic use ; Amitriptyline ; therapeutic use ; Analgesics ; therapeutic use ; Animals ; Antidepressive Agents, Tricyclic ; therapeutic use ; Blood Glucose ; metabolism ; Cyclohexanecarboxylic Acids ; therapeutic use ; Diabetic Neuropathies ; complications ; drug therapy ; Drug Therapy, Combination ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; therapeutic use ; Humans ; Pain ; drug therapy ; etiology ; Pain Measurement ; Phytotherapy ; Triazines ; therapeutic use ; gamma-Aminobutyric Acid ; therapeutic use

OBJECTIVETo compare the effect of different types and concentrations of sweet solutions on neonatal pain during heel lance procedure.

METHODTotally 560 full term neonates (male 295, female 265) were randomized into 7 groups:placebo group (plain water), 10% glucose, 25% glucose, 50% glucose, 12% sucrose, 24% sucrose and 30% sucrose groups.In each group, 2 ml corresponding oral solutions were administered through a syringe by dripping into the neonate's mouth 2 minute before heel lance. The procedure process was recorded by videos, from which to collect heart rate, oxygen saturation and pain score 1 min before puncture, 3, 5 and 10 min after puncture.

RESULTThe average heart rate increase 3, 5 and 10 min after procedure in the 25% and 50% glucose groups, 12% and 24% and 30% sucrose groups was significantly lower than those in the placebo group (P < 0.01 or 0.05). The average heart rate increase 3 min after procedure in the sucrose group was lower than that in the glucose group (P < 0.01).Neonates who received 30% sucrose has a significantly lower average heart rate increase than those who received 12% and 24% sucrose 3 min after heel lance (both P < 0.05) . The average oxygen saturation decrease 3, 5, 10 min after procedure was significantly lower than those in the placebo group (P < 0.01). The average oxygen saturation decrease 3 min after procedure in the sucrose groups was significantly lower than that in the glucose groups (P < 0.01). The average pain score 3, 5, 10 min after procedure was significantly lower than those in the placebo group (P < 0.01). The average pain score 3 min after procedure in the sucrose groups was significantly lower than that in the glucose groups (P < 0.01).

CONCLUSIONOral administration of sweet solutions is an effective way to relieve neonatal pain on procedure, and sucrose has a better pain relief action than glucose, moreover, 30% sucrose provides better effect in control of heart rate increase 3 min after heel lance, but the best concentration of sucrose for pain relief needs further study.

Administration, Oral ; Analgesics ; administration & dosage ; therapeutic use ; Blood Specimen Collection ; adverse effects ; methods ; Facial Expression ; Female ; Glucose ; administration & dosage ; therapeutic use ; Heart Rate ; Heel ; Humans ; Infant, Newborn ; Male ; Oxygen ; blood ; Pain ; physiopathology ; prevention & control ; Pain Measurement ; Sucrose ; administration & dosage ; therapeutic use ; Sweetening Agents ; administration & dosage ; therapeutic use