The Efficacy of Peripheral Opioid Antagonists in Opioid-Induced Constipation and Postoperative Ileus: A Systematic Review of the Literature. [PDF]
Opioid-induced constipation has a negative impact on quality of life for patients with chronic pain and can affect more than a third of patients. A related but separate entity is postoperative ileus, which is an abnormal pattern of gastrointestinal ...
Baratta, Jaime L. +5 more
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Pain management after outpatient surgical procedure [PDF]
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Adequate postoperative pain control is critical for any outpatient surgical procedure. This study aimed at evaluating analgesics and techniques used to manage pain of this type of procedure.
Munechika, Masashi +2 more
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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]
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 ...
Adamek +196 more
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Confronting the opioid crisis: Practical pain management and strategies: AOA 2018 critical issues symposium [PDF]
The United States is in the midst of an opioid crisis. Clinicians have been part of the problem because of overprescribing of narcotics for perioperative pain management.
Hsu, Joseph R +4 more
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Multimodal Combined Anesthesia during Traumatic Operations
Any need for combining the effective antinociceptive defense of a patient during traumatic surgical interventions has give rise to multimodal combined anesthesia (MCA) comprising a combination of epidural analgesia with a small-dose local anesthetic ...
Ye. S. Gorobets +4 more
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PAIN MANAGEMENT IN SMALL ANIMAL SURGERY
The field of pain management has profoundly evolved over the last decade. The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) defines pain as „an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or ...
Selma Filipović +4 more
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Pain management in obstetrics and gynecology
The problem of acute postoperative pain is present throughout the lifetime of surgery and, unfortunately, does not lose its relevance today. Inadequate pain control in the postoperative period leads to negative consequences.
Ye V Grigimalsky, A Y Garga
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Gabapentin for pain management after osmotic dilator insertion and prior to dilation and evacuation: A randomized controlled trial. [PDF]
ObjectiveTo evaluate if gabapentin 600 mg reduces pain after osmotic dilator placement the day before a dilation and evacuation (D&E) procedure.Study designWe conducted a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized (stratified by vaginal parity ...
Chen, Melissa J +5 more
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Sublingual sufentanil, a new opportunity for the improvement of postoperative pain management in Italy [PDF]
Despite the availability of national and international guidelines, adequate postoperative pain (POP) management is still a challenge in Italy. One of the potential reasons for the high incidence of surgical patients complaining moderate to severe pain is
COLUZZI, FLAMINIA +2 more
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Retrospective review of anesthetic and analgesic regimens used in animal research proposals [PDF]
Pain has a profound effect on an animal’s wellbeing. In Germany, researchers using animals have been legally required to reduce any possible pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm to an absolute minimum since 1972.
Flecknell, Paul, Herrmann, Kathrin
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