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PATIENT-CONTROLLED ANALGESIA

Surgical Clinics of North America, 1999
In appropriately selected patients, PCA safely provides analgesia superior to that obtained with traditional IM prn opioid administration; however, to date, no compelling evidence shows that PCA is associated with a reduction in morbidity or a more rapid recovery.
J A, Ellis, R, Blouin, J, Lockett
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Patient-Controlled Analgesia

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1983
Patient-controlled analgesia is a relatively new and investigational technique that permits patients to treat pain by directly activating doses of intravenous narcotics. The technique was developed in response to the undertreatment of pain in hospitalized patients.
D A, Graves, T S, Foster, R L, Batenhorst, R L, Bennett, T J, Baumann   +4 more
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Patient-controlled analgesia

British Journal of Nursing, 1993
Patient-controlled analgesia is an effective method of controlling postoperative pain, providing its introduction is planned carefully and both staff and patients have been fully trained in the technique.
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Patient-controlled Analgesia after Major Shoulder Surgery 

Anesthesiology, 1997
Background The authors compared patient-controlled interscalene analgesia (PCIA) with local anesthetics with intravenous patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) with opioids to manage postoperative pain after major shoulder surgery.
A, Borgeat, B, Schäppi, N, Biasca, C, Gerber   +3 more
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Patient-controlled analgesia

Paediatrics and Child Health, 2009
Abstract Patient controlled analgesia (PCA) is any method of allowing a person in pain to administer their own pain relief. In a hospital setting PCA refers to an electronically controlled infusion pump that delivers a prescribed amount of intravenous analgesic to the patient when he or she activates a button.
Saleem I M Khoyratty, Michael Spiro, Ailsa Evans   +2 more
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Patient-Controlled Epidural Analgesia

Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey, 1991
A double-blind, placebo-controlled study was designed to compare the efficacy of demand-dose patient-controlled epidural analgesia (PCEA) with continuous epidural infusion (CEI) for treatment of pain during labor and delivery. Forty patients were randomized to receive 0.125% bupivacaine with fentanyl (2 micrograms/mL) through CEI at 12 mL/h or through ...
F M, Ferrante, L, Lu, S B, Jamison, S, Datta   +3 more
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Patient-controlled analgesia.

Nursing times, 2002
This overview has addressed some of the key principles relating to patient-controlled analgesia. It is important to remember that PCA will continue to develop in the future and new techniques are being devised. PCA can provide an effective method of analgesia for many patients.
T, Tye, V, Gell-Walker
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Patient controlled analgesia in adolescents

Pain, 1987
Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) is a method of administering narcotics in which the patient activates a machine to administer a small bolus of narcotic. In the first year of PCA use in our hospital, 26 patients used PCA. We suggest a dose volume of 0.015 mg/kg/dose and a 4-hour limit of 0.25 mg/kg/4 hr, with a lock-out of 10 minutes.
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PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA

The Lancet, 1980
C J, Hull, A, Sibbald
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Patient-Controlled Analgesia

JAMA, 1991
Objective. —To assess the influence of a continuous (basal) morphine infusion as part of a patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) system on the postoperative analgesic requirement and on recovery parameters following abdominal hysterectomy. Design. —Single-center, randomized, controlled protocol. Setting. —University medical center. Participants. —A
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