Analgesia
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Sunday, November 08, 2009

Increase in quality, but not quantity, of clinical trials in acute pain: 1992 versus 2007.

30 Oct 2009 The annual number of published clinical trials in acute postoperative pain in adults has changed little in 15 yr and, as a fraction of all clinical trials published in the six highest impact journals in anesthesiology, has actually decreased from ... Read more...

Direct evidence for spinal cord involvement in placebo analgesia.

14 Oct 2009 Placebo analgesia is a prime example of the impact that psychological factors have on pain perception. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging of the human spinal cord to test the hypothesis that placebo analgesia results in a reduction of ... Read more...

Analgesia accompanying food consumption requires ingestion of hedonic foods.

12 Oct 2009 Animals eat rather than react to moderate pain. Here, we examined the behavioral, hedonic, and neural requirements for ingestion analgesia in ad libitum fed rats. Noxious heat-evoked withdrawals were similarly suppressed during self-initiated ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Analgesia'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Bowel surgery and multimodal analgesia: same game, new team? 30 Oct 2009
• Increase in quality, but not quantity, of clinical trials in acute pain: 1992 versus 2007. 30 Oct 2009
• Direct evidence for spinal cord involvement in placebo analgesia. 14 Oct 2009
• Analgesia accompanying food consumption requires ingestion of hedonic foods. 12 Oct 2009
• An analysis of renal dysfunction in 1511 patients with fractured neck of femur: the implications for peri-operative analgesia. 29 Sep 2009
• Visually induced analgesia: seeing the body reduces pain. 28 Sep 2009
• Pediatric pain after ambulatory surgery: where's the medication? 5 Sep 2009
• Topical sucralfate in post-adenotonsillectomy analgesia in children: a double-blind randomized clinical trial. 30 Aug 2009
• Musculoskeletal injection. 30 Aug 2009
• Activation of the opioidergic descending pain control system underlies placebo analgesia. 25 Aug 2009
• Temporal filtering of nociceptive information by dynamic activation of endogenous pain modulatory systems. 17 Aug 2009
• Continuous epidural versus nonepidural analgesia for post-pyeloplasty pain in children. 16 Aug 2009
• Minimally invasive total knee arthroplasty. 4 Aug 2009
• Adenovector GAD65 gene delivery into the rat trigeminal ganglion produces orofacial analgesia. 3 Aug 2009
• [Principles of fast track surgery. Multimodal perioperative therapy programme] 30 Jul 2009
• [Fast track in casualty surgery] 30 Jul 2009
• [Fast track in vascular surgery] 30 Jul 2009
• [Fast tracking in pediatric surgery] 30 Jul 2009
• Laparoendoscopic single-site surgery: early experience with tumor nephrectomy. 30 Jul 2009
• Does regional anaesthesia improve outcome after total hip arthroplasty? A systematic review. 21 Jul 2009

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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