Acta Clinica Croatica, 2023 Chronic postoperative pain (CPOP) is a serious health issue that affects millions of patients every year. The incidence of CPOP is the highest after amputations, inguinal hernioplasty, thoracotomies, cardiac surgery and breast surgery. In addition to surgical factors, the other risk factors are: female gender, younger age, preoperative pain ...
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Postoperative Pain Control [PDF]
Clinics in Colon and Rectal Surgery, 2013 The effective relief of pain is of the utmost importance to anyone treating patients undergoing surgery. Pain relief has significant physiological benefits; hence, monitoring of pain relief is increasingly becoming an important postoperative quality measure. The goal for postoperative pain management is to reduce or eliminate pain and discomfort with a
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Obstructive sleep apnea as an independent predictor of postoperative delirium and pain: Protocol for an observational study of a surgical cohort [version 2; referees: 2 approved] [PDF]
, 2018 Introduction: Postoperative delirium and pain are common complications in adults, and are difficult both to prevent and treat. Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is prevalent in surgical patients, and has been suggested to be a risk factor for postoperative ...
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A prospective analysis of sleep deprivation and disturbance in surgical patients [PDF]
, 2016 Introduction: Sleep deprivation has a potentially deleterious effect on postoperative recovery. The aim of our prospective study was to identify the factors contributing to postoperative sleep deprivation and disturbance in order to recommend ...
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Postgraduate Medical Journal, 1996 Accepted 16 October 1995 A 71-year-old man presented with a four-week history of left-sided back and leg pain. Two and a half years previously he had had an aorto-bifemoral prosthetic graft replacement for an inflammatory aortic aneurysm which extended into both iliac arteries.
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Intraperitoneal aerosolization of bupivacaine is a safe and effective method in controlling postoperative pain in laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. [PDF]
, 2008 INTRODUCTION: Obesity is a worldwide problem and has grown in severity in the last few decades making bariatric surgery and, in particular, laparoscopic banding and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass efficacious and cost-effective procedures.
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Pain detection with bioimpedance methodology from 3-dimensional exploration of nociception in a postoperative observational trial [PDF]
, 2020 Although the measurement of dielectric properties of the skin is a long-known tool for assessing the changes caused by nociception, the frequency modulated response has not been considered yet.
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Postgraduate Medical Journal, 1999 A 59-year-old woman underwent an Ivor-Lewis oesphagogastrectomy after being diagnosed with a lower oesophageal carcinoma. At operation the tumour was noted to be mobile and noninvasive. Histology of the resected specimen showed a poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma extending to the serosa, with clear resection margins and no lymph node involvement ...
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Evaluation of wound healing and postoperative pain after oral mucosa laser biopsy with the aid of compound with chlorhexidine and sodium hyaluronate: a randomized double blind clinical trial [PDF]
, 2019 OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study is to evaluate secondary intention healing process and postoperative pain of oral soft tissues after laser surgery with the use of a compound containing chlorhexidine and sodium hyaluronate.
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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 ...
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