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Patient-Controlled Analgesia in Children [PDF]
The use of patient-controlled analgesia is described for forty children who had undergone major orthopaedic or general surgery. Ages ranged from 6 to 18 years (mean 11.4 years) and PCA was used for an average of 46.2 hours postoperatively. Morphine requirements overall averaged 40.5 μg/kg/hr (SD 22.6).
J H Van Der Walt
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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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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 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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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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Background Orthopedic surgeries lead to moderate to severe postoperative pain, treating which is a challenge to the anesthesiologist. The present prospective, randomized study was carried out to compare the efficacy of postoperative pain relief between ...
Babita Ramdev +2 more
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The efficiency of IV PCA with remifentanil and ketorolac after laparoscopic-assisted vaginal hysterectomy [PDF]
BackgroundThis randomized, double-blinded clinical study was designed to evaluate the efficiency and safety of remifentanil with ketorolac for IV PCA after laparoscopic-assisted vaginal hysterectomy.MethodsEighty patients were randomly allocated into ...
Jung-Jong Kim +3 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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Background: With technological advancements, more elderly patients are undergoing surgery and require care from surgical intensive care units. We aimed to determine the pain management method that provides better acute pain control in all-cause elderly ...
Becki Wan-Yu Huang +5 more
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