With today's current focus on patient safety and medication administration, the ISMP and JCAHO have identified several consistently problematic areas for PCA use: PCA has been used successfully with ...

Two studies are the first to track the effectiveness of patient-controlled pain relief (PCA - patient-controlled analgesia) in patients from the Emergency Department to the ward. The studies show that ...

Credit: istockphoto Each increment of 100 patients treated was associated with a 3% increase in overall survival. Prostate cancer (PCa) patients experience better survival when they are treated at ...

The Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety shared four facts about patient-controlled analgesia pumps that providers should teach patients. Click here to read the four facts on PCA pump safety ...

Radiation therapy also is associated with a greater likelihood of fractures. Radiation treatment for clinically localized prostate cancer (PCa) is associated with an increased risk of cardiac and ...

The Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety offers a free checklist to prevent errors related to patient-controlled analgesia pumps that harm patients. 1. A patient can potentially receive too ...

Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA), which allows patients to self-administer small doses of analgesia within prescribed parameters, has become commonplace in inpatient settings and has proven to be a ...

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 ...