[3] This extra medication assures that the patient is comfortable at the initiation of the modality and will be able to sustain blood levels sufficient to maintain pain relief.

Acute and chronic postoperative pain and functional disability persisted among patients who underwent posterior spinal fusion despite multimodal analgesic management.

You may be receiving patient-controlled epidural analgesia or PCEA. What this means is that you will be receiving a continuous infusion of the epidural medication and you will also have a control ...

The form for patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) was updated to offer an alternative for morphine-allergic patients. Nursing education was provided by pharmacists and focused on the rationale for ...