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Are We Making Smart Pumps Smarter? [PDF]
, 2018 Background: Medication errors comprise a significant proportion of medical errors, and are abundant, costly, and associated with causing harm to patients via adverse drug events. The most serious medication errors often involve IV medications.
Schaefer, Brittany
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Drug Testing and Analysis, EarlyView.The study presents a validated UPLC‐MS/MS method applied for the detection of fentanyl, NPFs, xylazine, nitazenes in hair samples from 250 post‐mortem cases collected at the Jefferson County Coroner/Medical Examiner's Office (Birmingham, AL, USA). In 52% of the analyzed hair samples, fentanyl, its main metabolites, and related analogs were detected ...
Marco Ballotari +6 more
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Case Report and Literature Review: Interventional Management of Erythromelalgia. [PDF]
, 2019 Erythromelalgia is a rare and very difficult to treat pain syndrome that usually presents as severe bilateral burning pain in the extremities. Here we present a case of a 34-year-old female with erythromelalgia who we treated successfully with a lumbar ...
Chinn, Gregory, Guan, Zhonghui
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Drug Testing and Analysis, EarlyView.Among 23,900 urine and oral fluid drug tests from Swedish workplaces, 4.6% tested positive for controlled substances. Cannabis, amphetamine, cocaine and benzodiazepines were most common. Many samples containing opiates, amphetamine or benzodiazepines were MRO verified as being due to medical prescriptions, while cannabis or cocaine were almost entirely
Anders Helander, Fredrik Sparring
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Veterinary SciencesThe aim of this study was to evaluate the end-tidal concentration of isoflurane required, clinical parameters, intraoperative antinociceptive effect, and postoperative analgesia in cats undergoing ovariohysterectomy, receiving fentanyl, tramadol, or ...
Claudia Interlandi +9 more
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Effect of acute fentanyl treatment on synaptic plasticity in the hippocampal CA1 region in rats
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2015 Postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD), mainly characterized by short-term decline of learning and memory, occurs after operations under anesthesia. However, the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood.
Hai eTian +4 more
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Addressing the Fentanyl Threat to Public Health.
New England Journal of Medicine, 2017 Governments can address widespread fentanyl-related deaths by pursuing a harm-reduction approach involving increased transparency for users and public health and public safety organizations, harm-reduction policing, expanded naloxone use, and targeted ...
R. Frank, H. Pollack
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Butorphanol for Post-Operative Analgesia - A Comparative Clinical Study with Ketorolac [PDF]
, 2010 Introduction: Butorphanol, an opioid derivative has been shown to have, in addition to its analgesic properties, several other advantageous effects like antistressor, sedative and anti-shivering action.
Adappa, Karunakara +7 more
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Can variability in the effect of opioids on refractory breathlessness be explained by genetic factors? [PDF]
, 2015 © 2015, BMJ Publishing Group. All rights reserved. Objectives: Opioids modulate the perception of breathlessness with a considerable variation in response, with poor correlation between the required opioid dose and symptom severity. The objective of this
Currow, David C. +10 more
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Drug Testing and Analysis, EarlyView.This study is related to the development of a microextraction method for the determination of 56 psychoactive substances in oral fluid. Sample clean‐up is obtained by parallel artificial liquid membrane extraction and analyzed by liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry.
Martina Croce +6 more
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