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The incidence of postoperative pain in children
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There is considerable scope to improve pain management in children after surgery and this improvement must be based on improved education of medical and nursing staff in contemporary clinical pharmacology and on improved communication between staff, parents and patients.Abstract:
The incidence of pain in 170 children recovering from surgery was surveyed in two major teaching hospitals along with an analysis of analgesic medication prescribed and administered. Analgesic medication was not ordered for 16% of the patients and narcotic analgesic medication ordered was noread more
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Postsurgical pain relief: patients' status and nurses' medication choices.
TL;DR: The adequacy of pain relief in hospitalized post‐surgical patients was assessed and described and ways in which nurses on the same units chose analgesic medications were examined and analyzed.
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Kinetics and metabolism of paracetamol and phenacetin.
TL;DR: It is found that Phenacetin absorption depends on formulation, and it is extensively metabolized to paracetamol and minor metabolites are probably responsible for toxicity.
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Multiple intramuscular injections: a major source of variability in analgesic response to meperidine.
TL;DR: Variable pain control following intermittent intramuscular meperidine injections was shown to be due to inadequate, fluctuating and unpredictable blood concentrations.
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Clinical Pharmacokinetics Pethidine
Laurence E. Mather,P. J. Meffin +1 more
TL;DR: Measurement of plasma pethidine concentrations may be helpful as an aid to the management of patients with liver disease and in the elderly, where metabolites may accumulate and cause side effects.