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Continuous local anesthetic wound infusion: Impact on pain score and opioid use in patients undergoing elective mastectomy

Saudi Journal of Anaesthesia, 2022
Introduction: Opioids are commonly used to control acute postoperative pain but their usage is associated with significant complications and the potential of addiction.
Ahmed AlFaraj, Mona AlFaraidy, Zaki AlZaher, Adnan Al Wosaibai, Abduladem K AlShabeb, Hussain AlHashim, Zainab AlKhulaif   +6 more
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Contemporary opioid-sparing approaches after hysterectomy

Annual for Hospital Pharmacy, 2022
Hysterectomy is one of the most common interventions in the field of operative gynecology that can be done in various surgical ways. Regardless of the operative technique, the uterine ablation causes moderate to severe postoperative pain. The pain has both visceral and somatic origins.
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Opioid free onco-anesthesia: Is it time to convict opioids? A systematic review of literature

Journal of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology, 2019
The epidemic of opioid crisis started getting recognised as a public health emergency in view of increasing opioid-related deaths occurring due to undetected respiratory depression.
Raghu S Thota, Seshadri Ramkiran, Rakesh Garg, Jyotsna Goswami, Vaibhavi Baxi, Mary Thomas   +5 more
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Epidural Analgesia Decreases Narcotic Requirements in Low Level Spina Bifida Patients Undergoing Urologic Laparotomy for Neurogenic Bladder and Bowel [PDF]

, 2018
Purpose Concern of anatomical anomalies and worsening neurologic symptoms has prevented widespread use of epidural catheters in patients with low level spina bifida (LLSB). We hypothesize that thoracic epidural placement in the T9-T10 interspace is safe
Cain, Mark P., Green, Morton C., Horn, Nicole D., Misseri, Rosalia, Monn, M. Francesca, Roth, Joshua D., Whittaker, Stephanie C.   +6 more
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Efficacy of intraoperative subanaesthetic dose of ketamine on post-operative analgesia for patients undergoing single level lumbar discectomy under general anesthesia: A placebo control randomized clinical study

Asian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2023
Background: Sub-anesthetic ketamine is becoming increasingly popular for opioid sparing analgesic properties. Aims and Objectives: This study was done to determine the efficacy of intraoperative infusion of sub-anesthetic dose of ketamine on post ...
Sowmya Madihalli Janardhan Iyengar , Shankar Kantharaju , Shubha Mysore Ramesh   +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]

, 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 ...
Adamek, Akin, Al-Zaben, Alm, Amminnikutty, Amoli, Anderson, Anderson, Antila, Arcioni, Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, Aubrun, Aveline, Aysenur, Bailey, Bailie, Bakan, Baley, Becke, Beers, Bell, Ben-Meir, Bertini, Bhalla, Birmingham, Bouwmeester, Bozkurt, Breitfeld, Breschan, Breschan, Brown, Brown, Büttner, Carstensen, Cha, Chan, Chou, Conti, Cousins, Crellin, Cyna, Dadure, Dadure, Dahi-Taleghani, Dahmani, Dalens, Das, Derry, Derry, Duedahl, Ecoffey, El-Fattah, Elshammaa, Fendrich, Fieler, Finkel, Flack, Fösel, Ganidagli, Gear, Gemma, Ginsberg, Glover, Habre, He, Hicks, Hinz, Holmer Pettersson, Hong, Howard, Hudcova, Huenseler, Huynh, Höhne, Ingelmo, Ivani, Ivani, Ivani, Ivani, Jahr, Jaksch, José María, Ju, Jöhr, Kamata, Kart, Kimiaei Asadi, Kokki, Kokki, Kokki, Kokki, Koppert, Kost-Byerly, Kost-Byerly, Kubica-Cielińska, Kumar, Kurihara, Kwak, Lam, Laskowski, Lavonas, Leclair, Lee, Leksowski, Leoni, Litalien, Liu, Liu, Lorenzo, Lundeberg, Lönnqvist, Lönnqvist, Lönnqvist, Manworren, Marel, Marhofer, Mazoit, McNicol, Merry, Messerer, Messerer, Miller, Miró, Mobley, Mohammed, Momeni, Moriceau, Morton, Morton, Mukherjee, Müller, Mędrzycka-Dąbrowska, O'Sullivan, Olkkola, Orange, Ousley, Pace, Park, Park, Pasero, Petrat, Pierce, Polaner, Qian, Rabbitts, Redmann, Richer, Rugyte, Sahin, Sammartino, Sandeman, Schnabel, Schnabel, Schug, Schug, Schug, Schultz-Machata, Sekhavat, She, Shirazi, Sng, Soh, Sola, Soulard, Southworth, Sowder, Spacek, Splinter, Stamer, Staschen, Steans, Steffen, Subramanyam, Suresh, Taheri, Tobias, Tsuchiya, Valizadeh, Voepel-Lewis, Walker, Walther-Larsen, Walther-Larsen, Wang, Weintraud, Willschke, Willschke, Willschke, Wilson, Wilson-Smith, Wininger, Wong, Wong, Xue, Xue, Yaster, Yildiz, Yung   +196 more
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Frequency of cannabis and illicit opioid use among people who use drugs and report chronic pain: A longitudinal analysis. [PDF]

, 2019
BACKGROUND:Ecological research suggests that increased access to cannabis may facilitate reductions in opioid use and harms, and medical cannabis patients describe the substitution of opioids with cannabis for pain management. However, there is a lack of
Buxton, Jane, Cooper, Ziva D, Kerr, Thomas, Lake, Stephanie, Milloy, MJ, Walsh, Zach, Ware, Mark A, Wood, Evan   +7 more
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Erector spinae plane block for postoperative analgesia in cardiac surgeries- A systematic review and meta-analysis

Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia, 2023
Ultrasound-guided erector spinae plane block (ESPB) has been used in many studies for providing opioid-sparing analgesia after various cardiac surgeries.
Abhijit Nair, Praveen Saxena, Nitin Borkar, Manamohan Rangaiah, Nishant Arora, Prasanta Kumar Mohanty   +5 more
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Efficacy and safety of oral tizanidine premedication as pre-emptive analgesia in adult patients undergoing elective surgeries- A systematic review

Saudi Journal of Anaesthesia, 2023
Tizanidine is a centrally acting α2 agonist which has been used as a premedication due to its opioid-sparing and sympatholytic properties. This systematic review assessed the safety and feasibility of oral tizanidine.
Abhijit Nair, Manamohan Rangaiah, Nitin Borkar   +2 more
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The unsolved case of “bone-impairing analgesics”. The endocrine effects of opioids on bone metabolism [PDF]

, 2015
The current literature describes the possible risks for bone fracture in chronic analgesics users. There are three main hypotheses that could explain the increased risk of fracture associated with central analgesics, such as opioids: 1) the increased ...
COLUZZI, FLAMINIA, MATTIA, Consalvo, Pergolizzi, Joseph, Raffa, Robert B   +3 more
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