Analgesia - Ethics
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Ethics, law, and pain management as a patient right.

29 Apr 2009 Ethical and legal considerations in pain management typically relate to 2 issues. The first refers to pain management as a human right. The second involves the nature of the patient-physician relationship as it relates to pain management. Although ... Read more...

[Sedation and analgesia in the paediatric intensive care unit]

7 Jul 2008 Sedation and analgesia are a constant challenging issue in paediatric intensive care units, for ethical reasons among others. Basically, goals and available treatments in that context do not differ from those in adults. For instance, while we ... Read more...

On the nature, assessment, and treatment of fetal pain: neurobiological bases, pragmatic issues, and ethical concerns.

29 Jun 2007 Over the past 2 decades, the issue of fetal pain and stress has attracted considerable attention and has become the focus of ongoing debate in light of advances in medical diagnostics and technology that allow invasive prenatal medical ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Analgesia - Ethics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Ethics, law, and pain management as a patient right. 29 Apr 2009
• Ethics and analgesia. 29 Apr 2009
• From the editors. 30 Dec 2008
• Ethical issues in avian veterinary practice. 30 Aug 2008
• [Animal welfare, owner welfare, veterinarian welfare?] 30 Aug 2008
• [Sedation and analgesia in the paediatric intensive care unit] 7 Jul 2008
• [Is there a right to freedom from pain? Legal aspects] 30 Jan 2008
• Neonatal pain treatment: ethical to be effective. 30 Jan 2008
• On the nature, assessment, and treatment of fetal pain: neurobiological bases, pragmatic issues, and ethical concerns. 29 Jun 2007
• Recognizing pain management as a human right: a first step. 29 Jun 2007
• Legal and ethical perspectives on pain management. 29 Jun 2007
• Opioid analgesia: perspectives on right use and utility. 29 Apr 2007
• On the potential role for interventional pain management in palliative care. 29 Apr 2007
• A traditional jewish approach to risky medical treatment. 30 Mar 2007
• Interventional pain medicine: financial success and ethical practice: an oxymoron? 30 Aug 2006
• Pain control for dying patients: hastening death or ensuring comfort? 29 Apr 2006
• Analgesia and anesthesia for neonates: study design and ethical issues. 30 May 2005
• Acute pain and the critically ill trauma patient. 30 Mar 2005
• APS position statement on the use of placebos in pain management. 30 Mar 2005
• New facts and improved ethical guidelines for placebo analgesia. 30 Mar 2005

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Technical information about 'Analgesia'

Definition: Methods of PAIN relief that may be used with or in place of ANALGESICS.

Descriptor UI: D000698

Alternative terms: Analgesia; Analgesias;

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; classification; economics; history; instrumentation; methods; mortality; nursing; psychology; standards; trends; utilization; veterinary; statistics & numerical data; contraindications; ethics;

Tree Number: E03.091;

Technical Notes: do not use /util except by MeSH definition