Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) is a pain-management technique that allows patients to self-administer predetermined doses of pain medication using a programmable pump. 1 This approach offers ...

The Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety has released the results of its first national survey of patient-controlled analgesia practices. Patient controlled analgesia is known to result in ...

The Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety has released the results of its first national survey of patient-controlled analgesia practices. Patient controlled analgesia is known to result in ...

Should patient-controlled analgesia be used to treat acute pain in the emergency department? Melzer and coworkers [5] designed a pilot study to determine the role of PCA protocol on timing of ...

The Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety released four essentials for patient safety during postoperative pain management. 1. Ensure patients and families are provided information on proper ...

Development of a patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) screening strategy for early palliative care needs in outpatients with advanced cancer. Health-related quality of life among metastatic ...

A free checklist to prevent patient harm from errors related to patient-controlled analgesia pumps is available from the Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety. The PCA Safety Checklist ...

New findings suggest remifentanil patient controlled analgesia is not equivalent to epidural analgesia for pain, pain appreciation scores, and overall satisfaction in women who request for pain relief ...

Announcing a new article publication for BIO Integration journal. In this article the authors Haojie Yang, Yingzhe Yan, Qian Xie and colleagues from Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China and The ...

In a study to be presented on Feb. 7 at 1:30 p.m. CST, at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting™, in New Orleans, researchers will report findings which ...