Walking Or Bed Rest OK For First Stage Of Labor, UT Southwestern Research Shows
... for laboraugmentation with medication, the use of analgesia for pain and the percentagesof forceps deliveries and Caesarean sections. "Labor and delivery outcomes were unrelated to walking, and infants'outcomes were also similar in the two study groups," Bloom concluded. "Walkingneither enhanced nor i...Stress And Surgery May Increase Development Of Cancerous Tumors
...ut earlyanimal studies have shown increased use of analgesia reduces the risk." The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health, and the ChiefScientist of theIsraeli Ministry of Health. Lead author was Shamgar Ben-Eliyahu, Ph.D., andother authorswere Raz Yirmiya, Ph.D., and Guy Shakhar....Relaxation And Music Significantly Reduce Patients' Postoperative Pain
...n connected to their intravenouspatient controlled analgesia pumps. The groups receiving the additionalintervention used earphones to listen to music and relaxation tapes duringwalking and rest, while the control group did not. The research team measuredthe patients' pain before and after 15 minutes of bed r...Music, relaxation can complement pain medicine
...n connected to their intravenouspatient-controlled analgesia (PCA) pumps. In her study, Good randomly assigned patients with a computerizedprogram that also assured that the groups were similar regarding gender, type ofsurgery, chronic pain, first surgery, and antidepressant use. The groups werealso...Pain, itself, elicits pain relief, and does so through 'reward' pathway
... experiences. The evolutionary value of a rush of analgesia is clear, as it could allow, forexample, a badly injured individual to escape an attacker. It probably couldalso explain why some individuals can be injured without persistent pain. But the phenomenon may also explain why heroin addicts, in ......spital in labor should consider having an epidural analgesia line placedin order to minimize the potential risks of general anesthesia if a C-sectionbecomes necessary. An epidural involves the placement of a thin catheter intothe epidural space near the spinal column, which allows physicians to introduceanesth...DFG to support twelve new Clinical Research Units
...e now been approved:molecular mechanisms of opioid analgesia in inflammatory pain, FU Berlinbiomechanics and biology of bone healing: individual, strain-appropriate osteosynthesis, Humboldt University, Berlinosteogenic stem cell differentiation and therapy of bone loss, Wrzburg Universityimmune pathogenesis a...Patients' anaesthesia concerns reviewed
...ssociated with increased use of patient-controlled analgesia and epidural analgesia. David Royston comments: "Challenges to improve the comfort of patients continue, especially with regard to the almost universal problems of nausea, vomiting, and pain after surgery. A newer concern is that patients will d...PRAECIS PHARMACEUTICALS INC receives FDA approval for Plenaxis
...uce the potency, dose and/or frequency of narcotic analgesia at 12 weeks." "Three of 81 patients withdrew from the study because of an immediate-onset systemic allergic reaction, all of which occurred within minutes of receiving Plenaxis TM . One patient exhibited hives (Day 15), another exhibited hives and...Award-winning research affirms use of hypnosis in eliminating pain
...that these individuals, once they learned hypnotic analgesia techniques in the lab, were able to transfer the learned ability to help control their own back pain. Their psychological wellbeing went up and their depression and levels of pain went down." More recently, in an ongoing study with dentist John Greg...Study shows positive results for novel, patient-controlled transdermal system (PCTS)...
...CI PCTS for acute pain management requiring opioid analgesia in a medically supervised setting; a filing in the European Union is expected in 2004. ALZA Corporation developed the E-TRANS (electrotransport) system technology. If approved by the FDA, E-TRANS Fentanyl HCI PCTS will be marketed by Ortho-McNeil P...Transdermal patch as effective as intravenous pump for post-op pain control
...can Medical Association (JAMA). Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) allows the patient to self-administer small ...ed to intravenous morphine by a patient-controlled analgesia pump (n = 320) or fentanyl hydrochloride by a patient-controlled transdermal system (n = 316). The ...Gender and sex hormones affect the brain's pain response and more, according to new studies
...that differences in sensitivity to pain and opiate analgesia between males and females may be due primarily to ... thresholds and their response to morphine-induced analgesia were then evaluated using two different tests. Craft and her colleagues found that early testostero...DepoDur found to be innovative option for postoperative pain relief
...rative pain include intravenous patient-controlled analgesia (IV PCA), epidural morphine sulfate infusions, and...ng three decades of research, showed that epidural analgesia provides significantly better postoperative pain control compared to IV PCA. Until recently, all ava...Subanalysis finds patient-controlled, transdermal pain management system may be comparable
...ay be comparable to intravenous patient-controlled analgesia (IV PCA) when used after gynecologic surgery. This needle-free system for managing acute pain in the hospital setting is currently under review by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and was granted approvable status in June, 2004. These data...Two days of post-surgical pain relief now possible with just one shot
...edication intravenously through patient-controlled analgesia pumps (IV PCA). Unfortunately, with IV PCA there ...ng three decades of research, showed that epidural analgesia provides significantly better postoperative pain control compared to parenteral opioids. "Pain contr...No increase in C-sections when epidural analgesia given early in labor
Injecting spinal-epidural analgesia in early labor does not increase cesarean delivery...rd. Previous research has suggested that epidural analgesia initiated early in labor when the cervix is dilated less than 4 centimeters is associated with an ...Study finds no reason for expectant mothers to shy away from early epidurals
...hes at least 4 to 5 centimeters and other forms of analgesia should be used until that time. This recommendation was based on studies that found an association between the initiation of epidurals early in labor and an increased cesarean delivery rate. "We hypothesized that the findings of these earlier studi...