Analgesia

With respect to acupuncture analgesia-and the term analgesia not anaesthesia should be used-may I most emphatically state that it does work, and it works very well. ❋ Unknown (1973)

The fellow will gain experience in the use of patient controlled analgesia, continuous epidural analgesia, peripheral nerve blocks, intrathecal morphine, and oral analgesic therapy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If placebo analgesia and distraction-related analgesia are completely independent, and do not compete for limited cognitive resources, then the two types of treatment provide separate routes to pain relief -- and might be combined to maximize pain relief without overusing drugs. ❋ Wray Herbert (2012)

In her left fist is clutched the plastic PCA patient-controlled analgesia button. ❋ Md Meghan Maclean Weir (2011)

The brain has a limited supply of cognitive power, so if indeed placebo analgesia requires executive attention, then performance on a demanding cognitive task should interfere with pain relief from a placebo, and vice versa. ❋ Wray Herbert (2012)

Women should be offered different treatment options and, for non-surgical approaches, they also must be given realistic information about what is involved, and have adequate analgesia and access to care should they run into problems. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"Homeopathic Arnica montana for post-tonsillectomy analgesia: a randomised placebo control trial." ❋ D.O. Larry Malerba (2011)

Ganesh A, Adzick NS, Foster T, Cucchiaro G. Efficacy of addition of fentanyl to epidural bupivacaine on postoperative analgesia after thoracotomy for lung resection in infants. ❋ Unknown (2010)

(You are reasoning without modern analgesia: so you are either talking about the dark ages, or you are talking about a dystopian future when pain relief, for some reason, doesn't exist.) ❋ Zoe Williams (2010)

If a decision for circumcision is made, procedural analgesia should be provided. ❋ Joshua Stanton (2011)

A team of psychological scientists, headed up by Jason Buhle of Columbia University, decided to investigate this explanation for placebo analgesia. ❋ Wray Herbert (2012)

For these women, an alternative type of epidural called patient-controlled epidural analgesia may be an appealing option, as it allows a woman to control her dose of pain medication. ❋ Unknown (2011)

So-called "placebo analgesia" has been observed again and again not only in the pain clinic, but also in the neuroscience lab, where scientists have documented a placebo response in the brain's pain pathways. ❋ Wray Herbert (2012)

During the pre-visit, we'll discuss individual anesthesia needs and pain management strategies, including epidural anesthesia, patient-controlled analgesia and local or regional anesthesia, based on the type of procedure and the child's needs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The second group also had CEIs but were able to get an additional dose of medicine every 20 minutes by pushing a button patient-controlled epidural analgesia, or PCEA for short. ❋ Unknown (2011)