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Pain Management Teaching 664

Pain Management
Patient was instructed on pain management. Diabetes alters sensation in the smallest nerves, which happen to lie at the end of the peripheral nervous system, in the hands and feet. Diabetes starves these tiny nerves. As a result the nervous system becomes confused about what is and isn

Last updated November 13, 2017

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