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.
But that changed in 1996, when the American Academy of Pain Medicine and the American Pain Society -- organizations that get substantial funding from drug companies -- issued a joint statement endorsing the use of opioids to treat chronic pain and claiming the risk of addiction was low.