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Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide for patients with depression. Thought-provoking remarks [PDF]
, 2020 Euthanasia and medical assistance in dying entail daunting ethical and moral challenges, in addition to a host of medical and clinical issues, which are further complicated in cases of patients whose decision-making skills have been negatively affected ...
Bersani, G +3 more
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Introduction: Intractable pain [PDF]
Neurosurgical Focus, 2013 The problem of surgical pain management remains one of the most daunting in our specialty. Traditionally, we divide the surgical approaches into the more historic destructive procedures (“ablative”) and the more contemporary modulatory ones (stimulation or intrathecal agents).
Kim J. Burchiel, Ashwin Viswanathan
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Palliative Medicine Reports, 2021 Background: There are no universal tools to predict the necessity of high-dose opioid use for cancer-related pain. Early recognition and interventions for intractable cancer pain could minimize the distress of palliative patients. Objective: We sought to
Hidetoshi Sumimoto +9 more
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Cervical Cordotomy in Terminal Cancer: Pain Relieving in Oncological Treatment
Brazilian Neurosurgery, 2021 Cordotomy consists in the discontinuation of the lateral spinothalamic tract (LST) in the anterolateral quadrant of the spinal cord, which aims to reduce the transference of nociceptive information in the dorsal horn of the gray matter of the spinal cord
Maria Clara Cardoso Seba +5 more
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The Clinical Journal of Pain, 2018 Background: Neuropathic pain is one of the common complications after spinal cord injury (SCI), affecting individuals’ quality of life. The molecular mechanism for neuropathic pain after SCI is still unclear.
Yimin Wang +13 more
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Ketamine Use for Successful Resolution of Post-ERCP Acute Pancreatitis Abdominal Pain
Case Reports in Anesthesiology, 2017 We report a case in which a patient with intractable pain secondary to post-endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) acute pancreatitis is successfully treated with a subanesthetic ketamine infusion.
Suneel M. Agerwala +2 more
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Perception threshold and electrode position for spinal cord stimulation [PDF]
, 1994 The perception threshold for epidural spinal cord stimulation in chronic pain management was analyzed on 3923 testing data obtained from 136 implanted patients.
Barolat, Giancarlo +3 more
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Rewilding: An emotional nature
Area, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract Rewilding is an emotional subject. It inspires passions and argument in spades. As a form of conservation, rewilding offers exciting possibilities to address ecological crises but it is also a threat for many people, leading to dispute and impasse.
Sophie Wynne‐Jones
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"Semicut” skill on the cystic duct in laparoscopic cholecystectomy
Frontiers in Surgery, 2023 This study aimed to decrease the incidence of residual stones in the cystic duct and consequently decrease the incidences of intractable pain and the formation of a small gallbladder after laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC).
Linxun Liu, Zhanxue Zhao, Jinyu Yang
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Evaluation of intrathecal drug delivery system for intractable pain in advanced malignancies
Medicine, 2017 Pain is prevalent in advanced malignancies; however, some patients cannot get adequate pain relief by conservative routes of analgesic administration or experience serious side effects related to high dose of opioids.
Shuyue Zheng +4 more
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