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Patient-Controlled Analgesia

Anesthesia & Analgesia, 2005
One of the most common methods for providing postoperative analgesia is via patient-controlled analgesia (PCA). Although the typical approach is to administer opioids via a programmable infusion pump, other drugs and other modes of administration are available.
Claude, Mann   +2 more
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Patient-controlled analgesia

British Journal of Nursing, 1993
Patient-controlled analgesia is an effective method of controlling postoperative pain, providing its introduction is planned carefully and both staff and patients have been fully trained in the technique.
H F, Hill, L E, Mather
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PATIENT-CONTROLLED ANALGESIA

Surgical Clinics of North America, 1999
In appropriately selected patients, PCA safely provides analgesia superior to that obtained with traditional IM prn opioid administration; however, to date, no compelling evidence shows that PCA is associated with a reduction in morbidity or a more rapid recovery.
J A, Ellis, R, Blouin, J, Lockett
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Patient-Controlled Analgesia

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1983
Patient-controlled analgesia is a relatively new and investigational technique that permits patients to treat pain by directly activating doses of intravenous narcotics. The technique was developed in response to the undertreatment of pain in hospitalized patients.
D A, Graves   +4 more
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