Are You Dealing with Acute, Chronic or Terminal Pain?

Conversions & Information for Pain & Symptom Control

For Patients, Families and Caregivers

Claiming Your Pain Control Rights

We believe every person experiencing pain, whether acute, chronic or terminal, has the right to have his or her pain and symptoms considered seriously and treated as effectively as possible.

We support the movement to make the delivery of effective pain control a higher medical priority, and we believe physicians should be free from threat of sanction for prescribing opioids in accordance with medically accepted guidelines.

Bedside Pain Manager is an invaluable guide to dosage and other vital pain-control information for professionals and for people in pain, their families and advocates.

While Bedside Pain Manager is primarily written for and can only be fully utilized by licensed medical professionals, it can also help patients and family members inform themselves about the many options and considerations involved in the management of pain and other symptoms. Some of the caregiving tips and guidelines are of direct use to the layperson as well.

Sharing BPM with Your Healthcare Professionals

Patients or family members may wish to provide a copy of Bedside Pain Manager to their health practitioners for consideration. If you do so, your health professionals may or may not choose to use this information based on their own expertise, experience and personal beliefs.

In any case, we believe patients have an inviolable right to know that a wide variety of pain control medications and techniques are available, and we encourage people to inform themselves and claim their right to effective treatment.