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How Culture Enables Practice: Facilitators and Barriers to the Use of Total Intravenous Anesthesia in Pediatric Anesthesia

Pediatric Anesthesia, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Total intravenous anesthesia (TIVA) in children has gained popularity due to potential advantages, including decreased respiratory adverse events, postoperative nausea and vomiting, and emergence agitation. British Columbia Children's Hospital (BCCH) has a reputation for TIVA use, training, and advocacy, including intravenous ...
Nicholas West, Eleanor Reimer, Asli E. Ozer, Rotem Killam, Matthias Görges   +4 more
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Control and inspection of prescription drugs, narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and others with similar effects

Salud Integral y Comunitaria
Introduction: The appropriate use of medications has emerged as a crucial public health issue, given that misuse can have serious repercussions on people's health and finances. This phenomenon requires a multidisciplinary approach involving sectors such as education, economics, and social communication, due to associated risk factors such as work ...
Dionis Ruiz Reyes, Maikro Osvaldo Chávez Moya, Ileana Beatriz Quiroga López, Adriel Herrero Díaz   +3 more
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Public support of and attitudes toward decriminalization of possession of illegal drugs among the general population in British Columbia

Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy
Background Decriminalization of possession of illegal drugs was implemented in British Columbia, Canada for a three-year period starting from January 31, 2023.
Sameer Imtiaz, Cayley Russell, Farihah Ali, Tara Elton-Marshall, Sean Patenaude, Jürgen Rehm   +5 more
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Access to pain treatment as a human right

BMC Medicine, 2010
Background Almost five decades ago, governments around the world adopted the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs which, in addition to addressing the control of illicit narcotics, obligated countries to work towards universal access to the narcotic ...
Amon Joseph J, Schleifer Rebecca, Lohman Diederik   +2 more
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Analysis of prescription and dispensation of psychotropic medications in two cities in the State of São Paulo, Brazil [PDF]

Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry, 2002
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the prescription and dispensation of psychotropic medications through the analysis of the prescriptions/notices kept at various institutions in two cities in the state of São Paulo. METHODS: The prescriptions kept at drugstores,
Ana Regina Noto, Elisaldo de A Carlini, Patrícia C Mastroianni, Vanete C Alves, José Carlos F Galduróz, Wagner Kuroiwa, Jussara Csizmar, Agrimeron Costa, Mariluci de A Faria, Sônia Regina Hidalgo, Dirce de Assis, Solange Aparecida Nappo   +11 more
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Ashwagandha: Is It Safe? Part 1: A Regulatory Review

Phytotherapy Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the last decade, ashwagandha (Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal, AS) has been brought under increasing scrutiny by EU regulators regarding its safety for the use in food supplements, culminating in a recent recommendation for an Article 8 procedure according to Regulation (EC) No. 1925/2006 in the European Union (EU).
T. Brendler, R. Al‐Mondhiry, L. Lang, R. Marles, M. Tallon, A. Raghu   +5 more
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Programa Farmácia Popular do Brasil: uma análise política de sua origem, seus desdobramentos e inflexões

Saúde em Debate
RESUMO O artigo se refere a uma investigação qualitativa que analisa as origens, os desdobramentos, resultados e desafios do Programa Farmácia Popular do Brasil, face à necessária integralidade da assistência farmacêutica.
Tatiane de Oliveira Silva Alencar, Patrícia Sodré Araújo, Ediná Alves Costa, Rafael Damasceno Barros, Yara Oyram Ramos Lima, Jairnilson Silva Paim   +5 more
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Oral Ketorolac as an Adjuvant Agent for Postoperative Pain Control following Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Repair: A Prospective, Randomized, Controlled Study. (113)

Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine, 2021
Objectives: Arthroscopic rotator cuff repairs are associated with substantial postoperative pain. Traditionally, oral narcotic agents have been the preferred analgesic postoperatively in orthopaedic surgery.
Lakshmanan Sivasundaram MD, John Strony, Sunita Mengers, Nikunj Trivedi, Joseph Tanenbaum, Michael Salata MD, James Voos, Brian Victoroff, Michael Karns, Robert Gillespie   +9 more
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Preoperative caudal blocks associated with decreased cumulative opioid requirements compared to postoperative caudal blocks in pediatric urologic surgery

UroPrecision, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Caudal blocks (CB) are a cornerstone of pediatric urologic surgery, providing effective analgesia while mitigating potential neurotoxicity associated with general anesthesia and opioids. However, the optimal timing of CB—preoperative versus postoperative—remains controversial.
Jordan L. Mendelson, William Brenseke, Diego Alvarez Vega, William Nguyen, Mohammed Shium, Saige Gitlin, Ronnie G. Fine, Steven C. Friedman, Mark Horowitz, Walter I. Weiss, Raghu Idupuganti, Jordan S. Gitlin   +11 more
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Factors Affecting Unused Remaining Volume of Intravenous Patient-controlled Analgesia in Patients Following Laparoscopic Gynecologic Surgery

Asian Nursing Research, 2014
Purpose: This study was undertaken to evaluate the factors affecting the unused remaining volume of intravenous patient-controlled analgesia (IV PCA) in patients who had undergone laparoscopic gynecologic surgery.
Kyoung Ok Kim, MD, Ju-Won Roh, MD, Eun Jung Shin, RN, MSN, Junyong In, MD, Tae Hun Song, MD   +4 more
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