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Healthcare professionals’ perceptions on the use of opioid analgesics for the treatment of cancer-related pain in Cyprus: A mixed-method study

open access: yesSAGE Open Medicine, 2019
Objectives: Pain is considered the most common and debilitating symptom reported by patients affected by cancer, and opioids are at the front line for its effective management.
A. Charalambous   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

TREATMENT OF PAIN IN PEDIATRIC PATIENTS [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of IMAB, 2016
The article clarifies that pain is a multidimensional phenomenon both in adults and children. The authors reviewed the literature and surveyed the clinical data on the management of pain in pediatric patients. The conclusion was made that pain management
Nikolay Yanev, Mila Vlaskovska
doaj   +1 more source

Tapentadol extended release for the management of chronic neck pain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
BACKGROUND: The role of opioids in the management of chronic neck pain is still poorly investigated. No data are available on tapentadol extended release (ER).
Coluzzi, Flaminia
core   +1 more source

Analgesic use among the Brazilian population: Results from the National Survey on Access, Use and Promotion of Rational Use of Medicines (PNAUM).

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2019
PurposeTo estimate the prevalence of use of analgesics in Brazil; and to characterize this use, according to sociodemographic and health-related characteristics.MethodsA cross-sectional population-based study (National Survey on Access, Use and Promotion
Tatiane da Silva Dal Pizzol   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Efficacy, Tolerability, and Dose-Dependent Effects of Opioid Analgesics for Low Back Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

open access: yesJAMA Internal Medicine, 2016
IMPORTANCE Opioid analgesics are commonly used for low back pain, however, to our knowledge there has been no systematic evaluation of the effect of opioid dose and use of enrichment study design on estimates of treatment effect.
Christina Abdel Shaheed   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Administration of Tramadol or Buprenorphine via the drinking water for post-operative analgesia in a mouse-osteotomy model [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Adequate analgesia is essential whenever pain might occur in animal experiments. Unfortunately, the selection of suitable analgesics for mice in bone-linked models is limited. Here, we evaluated two analgesics - Tramadol [0.1 mg/ml (Tlow) vs.
Buttgereit, Frank   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Binding Pathway of Opiates to $μ$ Opioid Receptors Revealed by Unsupervised Machine Learning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Many important analgesics relieve pain by binding to the $\mu$-Opioid Receptor ($\mu$OR), which makes the $\mu$OR among the most clinically relevant proteins of the G Protein Coupled Receptor (GPCR) family. Despite previous studies on the activation pathways of the GPCRs, the mechanism of opiate binding and the selectivity of $\mu$OR are largely ...
arxiv   +1 more source

A Prospective Randomized Study Analyzing Preoperative Opioid Counseling in Pain Management After Carpal Tunnel Release Surgery. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
PURPOSE: Prescription opioid misuse has become increasingly prevalent in the United States. Preoperative opioid counseling has been proposed to decrease opioid consumption after surgery.
Alter, Todd H., Ilyas, Asif M
core   +3 more sources

Phosphorylation-deficient G-protein-biased μ-opioid receptors improve analgesia and diminish tolerance but worsen opioid side effects

open access: yesNature Communications, 2019
Tolerance and other side effects are important limitations to the use of opioids as analgesics. In this study, the authors generated mice lacking phosphorylation sites on the µ-opioid receptor to assess their contribution to the analgesic, tolerance and ...
A. Kliewer   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Use of Opioid Analgesics Before and After Gastric Bypass Surgery in Sweden: a Population-Based Study

open access: yesObesity Surgery, 2018
BackgroundLittle is known regarding the use of opioid analgesics among patients who have undergone bariatric surgery.The Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) procedure has been shown to significantly increase the rate of absorption of and exposure to morphine,
Stefan Wallén   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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