James Paul, Aman Arya, Lindsay Hurlburt, Ji Cheng et al.
BACKGROUND: Femoral nerve blockade (FNB) is a common method of analgesia for postoperative pain control after total knee arthroplasty. We conducted a systematic review to compare the analgesia outcomes in randomized controlled trials that compared FNB (with and without sciatic nerve block) with epid...
Mst Rabea Begum
Aim: The aim of the study was to find out the validity and reliability of visual analogue scale in pain measurement. Methodology: A critical review was done for this study. Total ten studies are included in this study. The majority of study designs are cross sectional study. In analyses most of the...
Ben Palmer, Gary J. Macfarlane, Cara Afzal, Aneez Esmail et al.
BACKGROUND: Musculoskeletal pain is reported more commonly by South Asians in the UK than by white Europeans. This may result from a variety of factors, including cultural differences, and thus we investigated the extent to which differences in the prevalence of pain within the South Asian populatio...
Carol Pattee, Margaret Ballantyne, Brian Milne
Objective Many anaesthetists believe that informed consent for epidural analgesia during labour is inadequate. Patients are perceived to be poorly informed and unable to cope with the information given during labour for informed consent. We reviewed these two hypotheses: A) to define complications f...
Lisa Barbera, Hsien Seow, Amna Husain, Doris Howell et al.
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to measure opioid prescription (OP) rates in elderly cancer outpatients around the time of assessment for pain and to evaluate factors associated with receiving OPs for those with severe pain. PATIENTS AND METHODS: The cross-sectional cohort includes all patien...
K. A. George, Peter M. C. Wright, A M Chisakuta, N. V. S. RAO
Twenty-one ASA I or II patients undergoing upper abdominal surgery were studied for 24 hours after operation. They were entered into a prospective, randomised study of patient-controlled intravenous morphine compared with continuous thoracic epidural fentanyl combined with 0.2% bupivacaine. Pain rel...
Jyrson Guilherme Klamt, Alexandre Slullitel, Luís Vicente Garcia, W.A. Prado
A clinical trial was conducted to evaluate the postoperative analgesic efficacy and the safety of intrathecal neostigmine in patients undergoing anterior and posterior vaginoplasty under spinal anaesthesia. Thirty-six patients were randomly divided into three groups to receive: normal saline (1 ml),...
Sheryl L. Chow, Comilla Sasson, Ivor J. Benjamin, Robert M. Califf et al.
The misuse of opioids continues to be epidemic, resulting in dependency and a recent upsurge in drug overdoses that have contributed to a significant decrease in life expectancy in the United States. Moreover, recent data suggest that commonly used opioids for the management of pain may produce unde...
Sharon Kaasalainen, Abigail Wickson‐Griffiths, Noori Akhtar‐Danesh, Kevin Brazil et al.
BACKGROUND Considering the high rates of pain as well as its under-management in long-term care (LTC) settings, research is needed to explore innovations in pain management that take into account limited resource realities. It has been suggested that nurse practitioners, working within an inter-prof...
Jesse V. Groen, Abdullah Khawar, Pascal Bauer, Bert A. Bonsing et al.
The optimal analgesic technique after pancreatoduodenectomy remains under debate. This study aimed to see whether epidural analgesia (EA) has superior clinical outcomes compared with non-epidural alternatives (N-EA) in patients undergoing pancreatoduodenectomy. A systematic review with meta-analysis...
Balavenkata Subramanian, Naman Shastri, Lutful Aziz, Ramachandran Gopinath et al.
Introduction: To compare pain scores at rest and ambulation and to assess patient satisfaction between the different modalities of pain management at different time points after surgery. Settings and Design: The ASSIST (Patient Satisfaction Survey: Pain Management) was an investigator-initiated, pro...
David Goldstein, Jacqueline Ellis, Robert Brown, Rosemary Wilson et al.
The Canadian Collaborative Acute Pain Initiative, established in 2002, is a voluntary, multidisciplinary consortium of acute pain health professionals from across Canada whose goal is to improve acute pain management through discussion and consensus. The group met in January 2002 to define strategic...
1Geriatrics & Palliative Care & Pain Medicine, Baycrest Health Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Helen Senderovich, Kristen McFadyen
INTRODUCTION: Many patients and their families are hesitant to consult a palliative care (PC) team. In 2014, approximately 6,000,000 people in the United States could benefit from PC, and this number is expected to increase over the next 25 years. OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this review is to shed li...
Roghieh Dehghan, Jairam Ramakrishnan, Nezamuddin Ahmed, Richard Harding
In 2007, 13% of all deaths worldwide were due to cancer, and of these 72% occurred in low- and middle-income countries. Opioids are essential for the successful delivery of palliative care and pain control. This paper reports data from a cross-sectional survey that aimed to investigate the use of mo...
Suparna Basak
Numerous studies revealed that the prevalence of pain remains high in postoperative patients.Little is known about the knowledge and attitudes level of Bangladeshi nurses and their practices in post-operative pain management.This study aimed to examine the level of knowledge and attitudes of nurses ...