Remifentanil patient controlled analgesia versus epidural analgesia in labour. A multicentre randomized controlled trial [PDF]
Background Pain relief during labour is a topic of major interest in the Netherlands. Epidural analgesia is considered to be the most effective method of pain relief and recommended as first choice.
Freeman Liv M +24 more
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Pain relief is a major concern for patients who have undergone surgery, and it is an eternal pursuit for anesthesiologists. However, postoperative pain management is far from satisfactory, though the past decades have witnessed great progress in the ...
Rui Wang +3 more
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Summary: Objective: This study aims to evaluate retrospectively the electronic medical records of surgical patients who received intravenous patient-controlled analgesia, to identify potential relationships between the incidence and risk factors of ...
Myung Sub Yi +7 more
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Comparison of oxycodone and fentanyl for postoperative patient-controlled analgesia after laparoscopic gynecological surgery [PDF]
BackgroundOpioids are widely used in boluses and patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) for postoperative pain control. In this study, we compared the effects of oxycodone and fentanyl on postoperative pain in patients with intravenous patient-controlled ...
Joong-Ho Park +5 more
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Intravenous patient-controlled analgesia versus epidural anesthesia in the treatment of patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty: a retrospective comparative study [PDF]
Background Total hip arthroplasty is a common surgical procedure used to reduce pain and improve hip joint function in patients with advanced hip inflammation. Patient-controlled epidural analgesia is more effective in reducing postoperative anxiety.
Qian Wu, Xiao Jun Zhi
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The aim of this study was to compare the post-operation analgesic effects of patient-controlled epidural analgesia and patient-controlled intravenous analgesia for patients who were undergoing esophageal cancer surgery.
Maziar Maghsoudloo +8 more
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Patient-controlled analgesia [PDF]
Acute postoperative pain often is unrelieved by conventional intramuscular and intravenous analgesic therapy. Difficulties arise from determining severity of pain, appropriate dosing, dosing intervals, health professional attitudes towards opioid administration, and the pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of analgesics themselves.
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Objective:Various strategies of multimodal analgesia exist for pain control following caesarean section, aiming to improve analgesia, reduce opioid requirement, and therefore decrease the incidence of opioid related side effects.
Savas Comlek
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Patient-controlled intravenous morphine analgesia combined with transcranial direct current stimulation for post-thoracotomy pain: A cost-effectiveness study and a feasibility for its future implementation [PDF]
This prospective randomized study aims to evaluate the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of combining transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) with patient controlled intravenous morphine analgesia (PCA-IV) as part of multimodal analgesia after ...
Dragojevic-Simic, Viktorija +6 more
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A new therapeutic option for postoperative pain management with oxycodone HCI injection [PDF]
Fentanyl is the most commonly used opioid analgesic in intravenous patient-controlled analgesia (IV PCA) in Korea. IV oxycodone was approved for postoperative IV PCA by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety of Korea in 2013.
Byung Moon Choi
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