Patient-controlled analgesia [PDF]
Acute postoperative pain often is unrelieved by conventional intramuscular and intravenous analgesic therapy. Difficulties arise from determining severity of pain, appropriate dosing, dosing intervals, health professional attitudes towards opioid administration, and the pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of analgesics themselves.
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Patient-controlled intravenous morphine analgesia combined with transcranial direct current stimulation for post-thoracotomy pain: A cost-effectiveness study and a feasibility for its future implementation [PDF]
This prospective randomized study aims to evaluate the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of combining transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) with patient controlled intravenous morphine analgesia (PCA-IV) as part of multimodal analgesia after ...
Dragojevic-Simic, Viktorija +6 more
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Remifentanil patient controlled analgesia versus epidural analgesia in labour. A multicentre randomized controlled trial [PDF]
Contains fulltext : 109349.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access)ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Pain relief during labour is a topic of major interest in the Netherlands. Epidural analgesia is considered to be the most effective method of pain
Albert Dahan +48 more
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Patient‐controlled analgesia [PDF]
Summary A patient received a massive overdose of papaveretum intravenously (estimated to be 180 mg) when the glass syringe of a patient‐controlled analgesia machine disengaged from the drive mechanism. She was successfully resuscitated.
E R, Grover, M L, Heath
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Local infusion of bupivacaine combined with intravenous patient-controlled analgesia provides better pain relief than intravenous patient-controlled analgesia alone in patients undergoing minimally invasive cardiac surgery [PDF]
ObjectiveThis prospective randomized double-blind study examined the effect of local wound infusion of anesthetics on pain control in the thoracotomy wound of patients undergoing minimally invasive cardiac surgery.MethodsPatients who underwent coronary ...
Kuan-Ming Chiu +42 more
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Interscalene patient‐controlled analgesia [PDF]
The case of a patient undergoing revision total shoulder replacement is described in which postoperative pain relief was provided by patient‐controlled analgesia via a catheter inserted into the sheath of the brachial plexus by the interscalene approach.
M A, Lucas, A W, Harrop-Griffiths
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Increased nausea and dizziness when using tramadol for post-operative patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) compared with morphine after intraoperative loading with morphine [PDF]
Thirty-eight ASA I-III patients undergoing lower abdominal operations were randomly allocated to receive either morphine (group M, patient-controlled analgesia bolus = 1 mg of morphine) or tramadol (group T, patient-controlled analgesia bolus = 10 mg of ...
Ho, ETF, Ng, KFJ, Tsui, SL, Yang, JCS
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Postoperative pain management in children: Guidance from the pain committee of the European Society for Paediatric Anaesthesiology (ESPA Pain Management Ladder Initiative) [PDF]
The main remit of the European Society for Paediatric Anaesthesiology (ESPA) Pain Committee is to improve the quality of pain management in children. The ESPA Pain Management Ladder is a clinical practice advisory based upon expert consensus to help to ...
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Benefits of thoracic epidural analgesia in patients undergoing an open posterior component separation for abdominal herniorrhaphy [PDF]
INTRODUCTION: The implementation of open posterior component separation (PCS) surgery has led to improved outcomes for complex hernias. While the PCS technique has been shown to decrease recurrence rates, and provide a feasible option to repair hernias ...
Sellers, Austin
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