Outpatient alcohol detoxification: Implementation efficacy and outcome effectiveness of a model project [PDF]
Background: The aim of the study was to examine the practicability and implementation efficacy of an alcohol outpatient detoxification model and the concomitant `motivational' psychotherapeutic approach.
Horak, M., Soyka, Michael
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Microinjection of the α2-adrenoceptor agonist clonidine into the hypothalamic periventricular nuclei (PVN) induces the pressor response associated with bradycardia in freely-moving conscious rats. This study investigated the involvement of γ-aminobutyric
Nobuyuki Hanafusa +3 more
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Comparison of Efficacy of Clonidine versus Ondansetron for Prevention of Nausea and Vomiting Post Thyroidectomy: A Double Blind Randomized Controlled Trial [PDF]
Background and Aim: Postoperative nausea vomiting (PONV) is the most common symptom in patients post thyroidectomy. Literature search shows conflicting results regarding use of clonidine in PONV prophylaxis.
Setty Nagendra Gupta Shilpa +2 more
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Factoring Emerging Markets Into the Relationship Between Global Liquidity and Commodities [PDF]
Purpose – What caused the mid-2000s world commodity price “bubble” and the recent commodity price growth? Some have suggested that rapid global industrial growth over the past decade is the key driver of price growth.
Chowdhury, Abdur, Landgraf, Steven
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Background: Postoperative pain and its management are a budding specialty in the medical field. The additions of adjuvants to local anesthetics were one of the effective methods to improve postoperative analgesia in terms of duration and profile.
T Krishna Prasad +3 more
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Background This pilot study (ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT01507701) assessed the feasibility and safety of clonidine in adolescent chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).
Fagermoen Even +7 more
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Comparison of Fentanyl and Clonidine for Attenuation of the Haemodynamic Response to Laryngocopy and Endotracheal Intubation [PDF]
Introduction: Laryngoscopy and tracheal intubation after the induction of anaesthesia, are nearly always associated with a sympathetic hyperactivity.
Sameenakousar, Mahesh, K.V. Srinivasan
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Patient anxiety and modern elective surgery: a literature review [PDF]
Medical advances have led to a considerable rise in the level of elective surgery undertaken as day-case surgery and with minimal hospital stay. However, amid such advances, preoperative psychological care has remained relatively static.
Mitchell, MJ
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Clonidine versus Captopril for Severe Postpartum Hypertension: A Randomized Controlled Trial. [PDF]
Changes during the puerperium are still unclear, particularly in women with hypertension. The choice of antihypertensives, both to control very high blood pressure episodes and to keep blood pressure stable, also requires further elucidation.
Carlos Noronha Neto C +5 more
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The implausibility of ‘usual care’ in an open system: sedation and weaning practices in Paediatric Intensive Care Units (PICUs) in the United Kingdom (UK) [PDF]
Background: The power of the randomised controlled trial depends upon its capacity to operate in a closed system whereby the intervention is the only causal force acting upon the experimental group and absent in the control group, permitting a valid ...
B Ambuel +34 more
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