This Journal feature begins with a case vignette that includes a therapeutic recommendation. A discussion of the clinical problem and the mechanism of benefit of this form of therapy follows. Major ...

From the patient’s point of view, one of the most difficult aspects of surgery is the recovery. After colorectal surgery, for example, the typical recovery involves prolonged rehabilitation with ...

The following text summarizes information provided in the video. Procedural sedation and analgesia involve the use of one or more sedative and analgesic agents to relieve pain and anxiety and to ...

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 ...

An epidural is an anesthetic delivered through a catheter (small tube) into a potential space outside the spinal cord called the epidural space. Using this catheter, we are able to infuse a solution ...

Should patient-controlled analgesia be used to treat acute pain in the emergency department? Melzer and coworkers [5] designed a pilot study to determine the role of PCA protocol on timing of ...

In a study of vaginal births in New York State hospitals, labor neuraxial analgesia – having an epidural or combined spinal and epidural - was associated with a decreased risk of severe maternal ...

Being unable to feel pain sounds enticing, but people with congenital analgesia frequently bite their tongues, break bones or burn themselves without being aware of it, sometimes leading to severe ...

Steven Pete and his brother were born with the rare genetic disorder congenital analgesia. They grew up - in Washington state, US - with a sense of touch but, as he explains in his own words, without ...

Most patients who choose epidural analgesia in labour are just as likely to have a vaginal delivery as those who do not Current epidural analgesia in labour uses a combination of low-concentration ...