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Variable-dose patient-controlled analgesia.

open access: yesAnaesthesia, 1995
One size of patient-controlled analgesia demand dose does not suit all patients after surgery. We have constructed a new patient-controlled analgesia system (variable-dose patient-controlled analgesia) in which patients have a choice of demand dose sizes.
J Plummer
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Patient-Controlled Analgesia

Current Drug Targets, 2005
Using a portable infusion pump, intravenous opioid patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) permits a patient to self-deliver a small bolus of opioid to achieve prompt relief without over sedation. Use of PCA for pain management is increasing in hospitals, largely because it can provide equivalent or better analgesia than conventional nurse-administered ...
Claude, Mann   +2 more
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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   +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.
H F, Hill, L E, Mather
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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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Patterns of patient-controlled analgesia and intramuscular analgesia

Applied Nursing Research, 1995
Effective management of acute pain is a major nursing goal. The purpose of this study was to identify patient patterns in intravenous patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) and intramuscular (IM) analgesia for patients after surgery. The patients who received analgesia via PCA had shorter lengths of stay. The morphine PCA patients used more medication than
M, Conner, D, Deane
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