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Skeletal muscle relaxants as adjunctive pain control following cardiothoracic surgery: a systematic review protocol

BMJ Open
Introduction Multimodal pain control following cardiothoracic surgery remains a focus in international guidelines. We hypothesise that non-depolarising skeletal muscle relaxants can prove to be a useful adjunct for this population.Methods/analysis This ...
Travis W Murphy, Shadman Kabir, Quinn Whaley, Melissa Fernandez   +3 more
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Pediatric fibromyalgia

Reumatismo, 2012
Fibromyalgia (FM) is currently defined as chronic widespread pain (CWP) with allodynia or hyperalgesia to pressure pain. It is classified as one of the large group of soft-tissue pain syndromes.
J. Ablin, D. Buskila
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A health-system-embedded deprescribing intervention targeting patients and providers to prevent falls in older adults (STOP-FALLS trial): study protocol for a pragmatic cluster-randomized controlled trial

Trials, 2023
Background Central nervous system (CNS) active medications have been consistently linked to falls in older people. However, few randomized trials have evaluated whether CNS-active medication reduction reduces falls and fall-related injuries.
Benjamin H. Balderson, Shelly L. Gray, Monica M. Fujii, Kanichi G. Nakata, Brian D. Williamson, Andrea J. Cook, Robert Wellman, Mary Kay Theis, Cara C. Lewis, Dustin Key, Elizabeth A. Phelan   +10 more
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Review of Anesthesia for Middle Ear Surgery [PDF]

, 2010
Special considerations for middle ear surgery include a bloodless surgical field, attention to patient head positioning, facial nerve monitoring, and management of postoperative nausea and vomiting.
Irwin, MG, Liang, S
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Clinical practice guidelines for the management of non-specific low back pain in primary care: an updated overview [PDF]

, 2018
Objective: The aim of this study was to provide an overview of the recommendations regarding the diagnosis and treatment contained in current clinical practice guidelines for patients with non-specific low back ...
Chenot, J.-F. (Jean-François), Koes, B.W. (Bart), Lin, C.-W.C. (Chung-Wei Christine), Maher, C. (Chris), Oliveira, C.B. (Crystian B.), Pinto, R.Z. (Rafael), Traeger, A.C. (Adrian C.), Tulder, M.W. (Maurits) van   +7 more
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Efficacy and acceptability of pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions for non-specific chronic low back pain: a protocol for a systematic review and network meta-analysis

Systematic Reviews, 2020
Background Despite the enormous financial and humanistic burden of chronic low back pain (CLBP), there is little consensus on what constitutes the best treatment options from a multitude of competing interventions.
Trevor Thompson, Sofia Dias, Damian Poulter, Sharon Weldon, Lucy Marsh, Claire Rossato, Jae Il Shin, Joseph Firth, Nicola Veronese, Elena Dragioti, Brendon Stubbs, Marco Solmi, Christopher G. Maher, Andrea Cipriani, John P. A. Ioannidis   +14 more
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Pediatric fulminant malignant hyperthermia with severe electroencephalographic abnormality and brain damage: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2023
Background Malignant hyperthermia is an extremely dangerous condition that can occur with exposure to volatile inhalant anesthetics and depolarizing muscle relaxants, and that requires immediate intervention.
Sakura Minami, Azusa Ikeda, Kaori Yamada, Aya Kajihama, Hiroyuki Shimizu, Hiroyuki Nagafuchi   +5 more
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Molecular genetic analysis for malignant hyperthermia : a thesis presented to Massey University in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Biochemistry [PDF]

, 2004
Malignant hyperthermia (MH) is a rare pharmacogenetic disorder in humans caused by inhalational general anaesthetics and depolarising muscle relaxants. An MH reaction shows abnormal calcium homeostasis in skeletal muscle leading to a hypermetabolic state
Sato, Keisaku
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Single exponential decay waveform; a synergistic combination of electroporation and electrolysis (E2) for tissue ablation. [PDF]

, 2016
BackgroundElectrolytic ablation and electroporation based ablation are minimally invasive, non-thermal surgical technologies that employ electrical currents and electric fields to ablate undesirable cells in a volume of tissue.
Guenther, Enric, Klein, Nina, Mikus, Paul, Rubinsky, Boris, Stehling, Michael K   +4 more
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Pharmacological management of spasticity in multiple sclerosis: Systematic review and consensus paper [PDF]

, 2016
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Treatment of spasticity poses a major challenge given the complex clinical presentation and variable efficacy and safety profiles of available drugs. We present a systematic review of the pharmacological treatment of spasticity
Comi, G, Gold, R, Hartung, HP, Montalban, X, Otero-Romero, S, Sastre-Garriga, J, Soelberg Sørensen, P, Thompson, AJ, Vermersch, P   +8 more
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