Despite the absence of pain signals, post-operative opioids control tachycardia and hypertension, highlighting the unique challenges in pain-insensitive individuals.

Another critical service provided by obstetric anaesthesiologists is labour analgesia — the management of labour pain through techniques such as epidural anaesthesia or several alternative options ...

Continuity in Discontinuity There’s an irony to being a hospitalist in oncology. Our patients often have complex, ...

Primary and secondary outcome measures The primary outcome was the Face, Legs, Activity, Cry and Consolability (FLACC) Scale Scores. Secondary outcomes included perioperative opioid consumption, the ...

When time to analgesia was dichotomised based on whether analgesia was received within 60 min, 28% of intervention and 32% of control patient (p=0.190) received analgesia within this benchmark. In a ...

Objective Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) is a common side effect of surgery. Risk factors include the use of opioids, type and length of surgery. One study suggests that postoperative ...

Objective To evaluate the short-term efficacy and safety of methoxyflurane for the treatment of acute pain in patients presenting to an emergency department (ED) with minor trauma. Methods STOP! was a ...

Objectives Optimising postoperative pain following knee replacement is important for patients, healthcare professionals and healthcare funders. Adductor canal blocks (ACB) are widely used but there is ...

Explore the clinical evolution of ketamine—from its military roots to its role in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. This ...

Patient Receives Brain Implant That Can Wirelessly Control Computers Neuralink competitor Paradromics plans to conduct the first clinical trial of its Connexus brain implant later this year.