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 ...

BARCELONA — Intravenous patient-controlled administration of hydromorphone offers better pain control and higher patient satisfaction compared with conventional oral morphine in managing severe cancer ...

The Physician-Patient Alliance for Health and Safety conducted a national survey on patient-controlled analgesia hospital practices. Here are six key findings from their survey. 1. Sixty-five percent ...

February 4, 2008 (Honolulu) — Intravenous patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) is safe and effective for managing pain after major intracranial surgery compared with conventional as-needed (PRN) therapy ...

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 ...

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 ...

Intravenous esketamine provides effective adjunctive analgesia after cesarean delivery while also reducing postoperative ...