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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"opioid-sparing"”.
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Multimodal Opioid-Sparing Analgesia: Increasing Regimen Adherence In Minimally Invasive Abdominal Surgery
<p>Multimodal Opioid-Sparing Analgesia: Increasing Regimen Adherence in Minimally Invasive Abdominal SurgeryIn 2016, the CDC estimated 11.5 million persons in the United States, aged 12 years and older, misused opioids in the past year. The opioid epidemic poses a challenge to the healthcare …
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Identification of Nurse-Controlled Predictors of Pain in Patients Undergoing a Total Hip or Total Knee Arthroplasty
… <p><strong>Background: </strong>The epidemic of opioid-related adverse events creates a need for opioid sparing approaches to pain management. Pain management practices have been studied in relation to medicine; however, the relationship between pain and opioid sparing, nurse-specific …
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Reducing Opioid Use Following Posterior Spinal Fusion Procedures: A Pilot Project
<p>Importance: Opioid misuse and mortality remain a prevalent problem in the United States and there is a high rate of chronic opioid-use after spinal fusions. Current guidelines recommend the optimization of non-opioid analgesics as a primary pain control strategy with opioids acting as a …
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Association of opioid requirement and cancer pain with survival in advanced non-small cell lung cancer
… lung cancer (NSCLC). Lung cancer cells express opioid receptors. Opioids promote angiogenesis, tumor growth and metastases, and shorten survival in animal models. Methods: To examine if long-term opioid requirement, independently of chronic pain, is associated with survival, we studied 209 …