BARCELONA — Intravenous patient-controlled administration of hydromorphone offers better pain control and higher patient satisfaction compared with conventional oral morphine in managing severe cancer ...
An analgesia system delivering small doses of the opioid sufentanil may represent significant progress for patient-controlled analgesia devices, according to a Pain Medicine News report. Designed by ...
The Physician-Patient Alliance for Health and Safety gave safety recommendations for patient-controlled analgesia pumps to manage pain, according to The Sacramento Bee. PCA pumps are used for patients ...
Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) was introduced into hospitals in the 1970s to improve the quality of postoperative pain control, and since then it has been a popular option. Patients like PCA and ...
The Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety has released the results of its first national survey of patient-controlled analgesia practices. Patient controlled analgesia is known to result in ...
HealthDay News — For patients presenting to the emergency department in pain, who are subsequently admitted to the hospital, the cost per hour in moderate or severe pain averted is higher for ...
Facility-Level Disparities in Radiation Use for Limited-Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) has been considered for managing cancer pain; however, limited research has been ...
A free checklist to prevent patient harm from errors related to patient-controlled analgesia pumps is available from the Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety. The PCA Safety Checklist ...
Announcing a new article publication for BIO Integration journal. In this article the authors Haojie Yang, Yingzhe Yan, Qian Xie and colleagues from Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China and The ...