I would work to see medical aid-in-dying legislation enacted. MAID is fundamentally about the right of individuals to make ...

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

Anesthesia techniques play a crucial role in alleviating this pain and improving patient recovery ... anesthesia techniques for postoperative analgesia in patients undergoing major oncologic ...

Background Analgesia is an important component for patient well-being, but commonly delayed during trauma resuscitation. The Pharmacists in Trauma trial assessed the effects of integrating pharmacists ...

The main outcome measures were: number of days until walking unaided, number of days off work, whether the injury kept the patient awake at night, whether analgesia was taken. Results—197 of 400 ...

When animals need medical attention, effective restraint makes the job easier and safer for both the person providing the ...

Methods/analysis This study is a multicentre, randomised controlled ... the patient can drink and eat freely or to the seventh postoperative day. In both groups, the treating physician administers ...

This randomised controlled trial will evaluate the effect of a single preoperative dose of methylprednisolone on the incidence of postoperative complications and other patient-important ... including ...

African American patients are less likely than White patients to receive comprehensive pain treatment post- noncardiac ...

AI models rely on large volumes of sensitive patient data that require "training." Errors can lead to misdiagnoses, inappropriate treatments or other harmful outcomes. Overreliance on AI poses the ...

Aging Health. 2011;7(6):813-828. Common opioid side effects reported in the literature include urinary retention, pruritus, nausea and vomiting, CNS effects and respiratory effects. The incidence ...

The Annals of Pharmacotherapy. 2006;40(11):2178-2186. The mechanism of action of fentanyl is best described by its agonist interaction with the opioid µ-receptor. These sites of interaction are ...