by Bruce Sylvester: A study of the protective effect of heart medications that patients receive before coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery suggests that statins reduce the risk… read more.
New research suggests that sedating patients before a nerve block needed to diagnose or treat chronic pain increases costs, risks and unnecessary surgeries, and sedation does nothing to… read more.
Findings also show that patients report pain relief even when they know they are receiving a placebo.
In fibromyalgia patients undergoing knee or hip replacement surgery, low-dose, intraoperative ketamine appeared to reduce the need for post-surgical opioid therapy, researchers said.
Abuse of common anesthetic has ‘rapid downhill course’, reports Journal of Addiction Medicine. Abuse of the anaesthesia drug propofol is a “rapidly progressive form of substance dependence” that… read more.
Liposomes packed with local anesthetic could block the nerve signals that reprogram pain centers and cause chronic, debilitating pain.
by Bruce Sylvester – Researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology report the discovery a potential method to delay the onset of neuropathic pain.
by Bruce Sylvester – Researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology report the discovery a potential method to delay the onset of neuropathic pain.
by Edel O’Connell reporting on a presentation by Dr. Darrach O h-Ici.
by Bruce Sylvester – Following a systematic review of 26 relevant studies involving 2,959 women, Cochrane Review researchers concluded that inhaled pain relief appears to offer safe and… read more.
by Thomas R. Collins – Pursuing liver grafts in an aggressive manner throughout the United States is much more costly than getting them from a local or regional… read more.
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