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Prescribing and administration of opioid analgesics in residents of aged care facilities
Journal of Research in Pharmacy Practice, 2019 Objective: Optimal pain management in residents requires an understanding of prescribing and administration of opioid analgesics. This study aimed to describe opioid administration for elderly residents in a selection of aged care facilities.
Areej Numan Hussein, Lynne Emmerton
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Opioid peptide-derived analgesics [PDF]
The AAPS Journal, 2005 Two recent developments of opioid peptide-based analgesics are reviewed. The first part of the review discusses the dermorphin-derived, cationic-aromatic tetrapeptide H-Dmt-D-Arg-Phe-Lys-NH(2) ([Dmt(1)]DALDA, where Dmt indicates 2',6'-dimethyltyrosine), which showed subnanomolar mu receptor binding affinity, extraordinary mu receptor selectivity, and ...
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Tolerance to non-opioid analgesics is opioid-sensitive in nucleus raphe magnus [PDF]
, 2011 Repeated injection of opioid analgesics can lead to a progressive loss of its effect. This phenomenon is known as tolerance. Several lines of investigations have shown that systemic, intraperitoneal administration or the microinjection of non-opioid ...
Merab G. Tsagareli +7 more
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Opioid analgesics, stigma, shame and identity [PDF]
, 2021 This chapter explores how the lives of individuals affected by the consumption of opioid analgesics for pain relief have often only been framed as clinical or public health concerns and have neglected important additional psychosocial consequences and in
Cooper, R.J., Richard J. Cooper
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Knowledge of opioid analgesics intensive care
, 2021 Bakalářská práce se zabývám znalostí opioidních analgetik v intenzivní péči. Práce je rozdělena na část teoretickou a výzkumnou. Teoretická část se zaměřuje na opioidní analgetika a jejich možné využití v intenzivní péči, krajově poté bolestí a léčbou ...
Prüherová, Adéla
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PLoS ONE, 2021 BackgroundShortages of opioid analgesics are increasingly common, interfere with patient care and increase healthcare cost. This study characterized the incidence of shortages of opioid analgesics in the period 2015-2019 and evaluated potential ...
Rosa Rodriguez-Monguio +2 more
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Prescribing databases can be used to monitor trends in opioid analgesic prescribing in Australia
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2013 Objective: There has been increased use of prescription opioid analgesics in Australia in the past 20 years with increasing evidence of related problems. A number of data sources collect information about the dispensed prescribing for opioid medications,
Samantha A. Hollingworth +6 more
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Adverse CNS effects of opioid analgesics
, 2021 Opioid analgesic drugs are widely used in the treatment of moderate to severe pain as well as symptomatictreatment of dyspnoea. However, the use of opioids may cause central adverse effects, such as delirium,cognitive impairment, sedation, hallucinations,
Wojtasik-Bakalarz, Krzysztof; Zakład Farmakologii Klinicznej Katedry Farmakologii UJ CM w Krakowie, Ul. Grzegórzecka 16, 31-531 Kraków, Poland +2 more
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PLoS ONE, 2019 PurposeTo estimate the prevalence of use of analgesics in Brazil; and to characterize this use, according to sociodemographic and health-related characteristics.MethodsA cross-sectional population-based study (National Survey on Access, Use and Promotion
Tatiane da Silva Dal Pizzol +5 more
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