A 40-year-old woman with hypertensive nephrosclerosis began haemodialysis in January 2009. In March 2010, she underwent placement of a left forearm straight Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) haemodialysis graft for haemodialysis. She became increasingly intolerant of graft cannulation due to the pain of skin puncture and was prescribed a topical local anaesthetic preparation (EMLA). Within 3 weeks...

La lectura juega un papel esencial en la formación universitaria como instrumento de reflexión crítica y desarrollo conocimientos especializados. Por ello, este trabajo pretende conocer motivación por académica 145 estudiantes 4.º del Grado Educación Primaria Universidad Cádiz durante el curso 2018/2019. Los datos se recabaron mediante cuestionario sobre los hábitos lectores que incluía Escala ...

BACKGROUND Severe traumatic knee injury, including injury to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), leads to impaired sensorimotor function. Although improvements are achieved by training, impairment often persists. Because good sensorimotor function is associated with better patient-reported function and a potential lower risk of future joint problems, more effective treatment is warranted. Tem...

BACKGROUND Principles of brain plasticity is used in the treatment of patients with functional limitations to improve sensorimotor function. Training is included in the treatment of knee injury to improve both patient-reported function and sensorimotor function. However, impairment in sensorimotor function often persists despite training. Therefore, it was suggested that training programs need ...

OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to compare the analgesic effect of sucrose with that of the combination of sucrose and the local anesthetic cream EMLA during venipuncture in preterm neonates. METHODS This randomized, double-blind prospective study included infants younger than 37 weeks' gestational age during 1 routine venipuncture for blood sampling. Each child randomly received either ...

conclusions although the results of this study showed superiority of application of emla cream as a topical anesthetic for pain relief of blood sampling, both lidocaine 5% and benzocaine 5% offer considerable efficacy in pain relief of venipuncture. results at the end of study, the emla products (a and b) caused a significant decrease in pain (p < 0.05) in comparison with the products c (lidoca...

PURPOSE Transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy is the procedure of choice for diagnosing prostate cancer. We compared with pain-relieving effect of acetaminophen, a known drug for enhancing the pain-relieving effect of tramadol, and eutectic mixture of local anesthetics (EMLA), a local anesthetic agent, with that of the conventional periprostatic nerve block method. MATERIALS AND METHO...

The development of topical anesthetics has provided the family physician with multiple options in anesthetizing open and intact skin. The combination of tetracaine, adrenaline (epinephrine), and cocaine, better known as TAC, was the first topical agent available for analgesia of lacerations to the face and scalp. Cocaine has been replaced with lidocaine in a newer formulation called LET (lidoca...