Opioids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Morphine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Meperidine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Fentanyl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Remifentanil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Sedatives and/or Tranquilizers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Barbiturates . . ...

CONTEXT Pain often is inadequately treated due in part to reluctance about using opioid analgesics and fear that they will be abused. Although international and national expert groups have determined that opioid analgesics are essential for the relief of pain, little information has been available about the health consequences of the abuse of these drugs. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the proportion ...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effect of emergency department (ED) crowding on assessment and treatment of pain in older adults. DESIGN Retrospective review of ED records from a prospective cohort study. SETTING Urban, academically affiliated, tertiary medical center. PARTICIPANTS One hundred fifty-eight patients, aged 50 and older, evaluated and hospitalized from the ED with hip fracture. ...

Specific interventions included in the review Studies that evaluated NSAID therapy after surgery were included. The specific NSAIDs included were intravenous (i.v.) or intramuscular ketorolac (30 mg and 1 mg/kg), oral ibuprofen (5 mg/kg every 6 hours), or i.v. ketoprofen (3.5 mg/kg). The control groups received saline (3 studies), paracetamol plus codeine (2 studies), or either morphine or mepe...

I read with great interest the work published by Mogadam et al., entitled "Comparison of Analgesic Effect between Gabapentin and Diclofenac on Post-Operative Pain in Patients Undergoing Tonsillectomy" (1). I found the article quite interesting, however I have few questions that should be answered before we start to prescribe gabapentin or diclofenac to all patients before tonsillectomy, with th...