Results 11 to 20 of about 84,046 (305)

Management of Opioid Analgesic Overdose [PDF]

New England Journal of Medicine, 2012
The rate of opioid analgesic overdose is proportional to the number of opioid prescriptions and the dose prescribed. This review considers the epidemiology, mechanisms, and management of opioid analgesic overdose.
Douglas C. Throckmorton, Peter Lurie, Wilson M. Compton   +2 more
openaire   +9 more sources

Orofacial pain in oncology: use of a new analgesic peptide tafalgin

Опухоли головы и шеи, 2023
In patients with head and neck tumors severe pain is more common than in patients with malignant neoplasms of other locations. At a third of patients, pain is the first characteristic of the disease, and after diagnosis, one half of the patients are ...
G. R. Abuzarova, R. R. Sarmanaeva, G. S. Alekseeva, S. V. Kuznetsov, A. R. Gevorkov, N. A. Fedorenko, D. A. Zaretskaya   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Central nervous system (CNS) medications and polypharmacy in later life: cross-sectional analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)

BMJ Open, 2020
Objectives Many central nervous system (CNS) medications are considered potentially inappropriate for prescribing in older people; however, these medications are common in polypharmacy (≥5 medicines) regimens.
Natasha Slater, Simon White, Martin Frisher   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Subtypes in Patients Taking Prescribed Opioid Analgesics and Their Characteristics: A Latent Class Analysis

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022
BackgroundOwing to their pharmacological properties the use of opioid analgesics carries a risk of abuse and dependence, which are associated with a wide range of personal, social, and medical problems.
Christian Rauschert, Nicki-Nils Seitz, Sally Olderbak, Sally Olderbak, Oliver Pogarell, Tobias Dreischulte, Ludwig Kraus, Ludwig Kraus, Ludwig Kraus   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Opioid Analgesic Prescribing Practices of Dental Professionals in the United States [PDF]

, 2017
The prescription of opioid analgesics by dental professionals is widespread in the United States. Policy makers, government agencies, and professional organizations consider this phenomenon a growing public health concern.
Okunseri, Christopher, Okunseri, Elaye, Steinmetz, C. N., Szabo, Aniko, Zheng, C.   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

The unsolved case of “bone-impairing analgesics”. The endocrine effects of opioids on bone metabolism [PDF]

, 2015
The current literature describes the possible risks for bone fracture in chronic analgesics users. There are three main hypotheses that could explain the increased risk of fracture associated with central analgesics, such as opioids: 1) the increased ...
COLUZZI, FLAMINIA, MATTIA, Consalvo, Pergolizzi, Joseph, Raffa, Robert B   +3 more
core   +3 more sources

Changes in analgesic strategies for lobectomy from 2009 to 2018Central MessagePerspective

JTCVS Open, 2021
Objective: To evaluate trends in the use of epidural analgesia and nonopioid and opioid analgesics for patients undergoing lobectomy from 2009 to 2018.
Theresa Lo, MD, Robin Schiller, MD, DMD, Karthik Raghunathan, MBBS, MPH, Vijay Krishnamoorthy, MD, MPH, PhD, Oliver K. Jawitz, MD, MHS, Srinivas Pyati, MBBS, MD, FCARCSI, Thomas Van De Ven, MD, PhD, Raquel R. Bartz, MD, Annemarie Thompson, MD, Tetsu Ohnuma, MD, MPH, PhD   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analgesic prescribing trends in a national sample of older veterans with osteoarthritis: 2012-2017 [PDF]

, 2019
Few investigations examine patterns of opioid and nonopioid analgesic prescribing and concurrent pain intensity ratings before and after institution of safer prescribing programs such as the October 2013 Veterans Health Administration system-wide Opioid ...
Bair, Matthew J., Bean, Andrew, Brandt, Cynthia A., Brody, Abraham A., Hwang, Ula, Kerns, Robert D., Runels, Tessa, Trentalange, Mark   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Clinically important drug interactions with opioid and non-opioid analgesics [PDF]

Arhiv za farmaciju, 2018
Patients often seek advise from doctors and pharmacists about pain treatment. Opioid and non-opioid analgesics are the most commonly used drugs in the treatment of pain, but they have potential for pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic drug-drug ...
Vezmar-Kovačević Sandra, Vučićević Katarina, Vučenović-Topić Valentina, Rajkovača Zvezdana, Miljković Branislava   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Recent Chemical and Pharmacological Developments on 14-Oxygenated-N-methylmorphinan-6-ones

Molecules, 2021
Adequate pain management, particularly chronic pain, remains a major challenge associated with modern-day medicine. Current pharmacotherapy offers unsatisfactory long-term solutions due to serious side effects related to the chronic administration of ...
Mariana Spetea, Helmut Schmidhammer
doaj   +1 more source