The heart is divided into four main areas, or chambers â two upper chambers (called the left and right atrium) and two lower chambers (called the left and right ventricle). There are four valves that control the flow of blood through your heart.he heart is divided into four main areas, or chambers â two upper chambers (called the left and right atrium) and two lower chambers (called the left and right ventricle). There are four valves that control the flow of blood through your heart.
The newly approved Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) pain management standards present an important opportunity for widespread and sustainable improvement in pain assessment and management. Unrelieved pain is a major, yet avoidable, public health problem.
Protocols for a lifetime of pain management for patients suffering constant, incurable, excrutiating, unrelenting pain. By Forest Tennant, MD, DrPH, John Liu, MD and Laura Hermann, RN, FNP. Page 1 of 3. The current thrust to humanely identify and treat pain is uncovering a group of patients with severe, chronic intractable pain (IP).