Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 2012 Therapeutic Reviews aim to provide essential independent information for health professionals about drugs used in palliative and hospice care. Additional content is available on www.palliativedrugs.com. Country-specific books (Hospice and Palliative Care Formulary USA, and Palliative Care Formulary, British and Canadian editions) are also available and
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Fentanyl depression of respiration: comparison with heroin and morphine
bioRxiv, 2019 Background and Purpose Fentanyl overdose deaths have reached ‘epidemic’ levels in North America. Death in opioid overdose invariably results from respiratory depression.
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Ranking the harm of non-medically used prescription opioids in the UK [PDF]
, 2015 A panel of nine experts applied multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) to determine the relative overall harm to users and harms to others of street heroin (injected and smoked) and eleven non-medically used prescription opioids.
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Fentanyl for labour pain management: a scoping review
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2022 Background Labour pain has been identified as an important reason for women to prefer caesarean section (CS). Fentanyl is one of the short acting opioids recommended by World Health Organization for pain relief during labour. This study aimed to identify
Kyaw Lwin Show +9 more
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The rising crisis of illicit fentanyl use, overdose, and potential therapeutic strategies
Translational Psychiatry, 2019 Fentanyl is a powerful opioid anesthetic and analgesic, the use of which has caused an increasing public health threat in the United States and elsewhere.
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PHARMACOKINETICS OF FENTANYL IN THE ELDERLY [PDF]
Anesthesiology, 1985 The pharmacokinetics of fentanyl were determined in seven elderly (71-82 yr) and seven younger adults (18-41 yr) anaesthetized with thiopentone, nitrous oxide in oxygen and morphine. Fentanyl was administered as a 2-min i.v. infusion at doses of 15 micrograms kg-1 for elderly patients and 20 micrograms kg-1 for the younger patients. Plasma samples were
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General practitioners' reasons for removing patients from their lists: postal survey in England and Wales [PDF]
, 2001 The removal of patients from doctors' lists causes con siderable public and political concern, with speculation that patients are removed for inappropriate, including financial, reasons.
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Investigation of monoclonal antibody CSX-1004 for fentanyl overdose
Nature Communications, 2023 The opioid crisis in the United States is primarily driven by the highly potent synthetic opioid fentanyl leading to >70,000 overdose deaths annually; thus, new therapies for fentanyl overdose are urgently needed. Here, we present the first clinic-ready,
Paul T. Bremer +3 more
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The Fentanyl Epidemic and Evolution of Fentanyl Analogs in the United States and the European Union.
Clinical Chemistry, 2019 BACKGROUND Since 2013, an unprecedented surge in fentanyl overdose deaths has been caused by heroin laced with illicitly produced fentanyl and/or fentanyl analogs (FAs) sold as heroin.
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Postoperative pain management in children: Guidance from the pain committee of the European Society for Paediatric Anaesthesiology (ESPA Pain Management Ladder Initiative) [PDF]
, 2018 The main remit of the European Society for Paediatric Anaesthesiology (ESPA) Pain Committee is to improve the quality of pain management in children. The ESPA Pain Management Ladder is a clinical practice advisory based upon expert consensus to help to ...
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