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GE Healthcare Receives FDA Clearance On Navigator Applications Suite For Anesthesia Therapy At ASA 2007
Categorie : Pain / AnestheticsGE Healthcare announced it received FDA 510k clearance on its Navigator Applications Suite, an aid to healthcare providers as they make clinical decisions in anesthesia therapy. GE also introduced its Pressure Controlled Ventilation-Volume Guaranteed (PCV-VG) technology in the Avance Caresta ...
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Sun Oct 2007
Watching Funny Shows Helps Children Tolerate Pain For Longer Periods
Categorie : Pain / AnestheticsWatching comedy shows helped children tolerate pain for longer periods of time, suggesting that humorous distraction could be used in clinical settings to help children and adolescents better handle painful procedures, according to a study which teamed UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center with ...
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Sun Oct 2007
Breaking Studies - Masimo's Technologies The Focus Of Multiple Clinical Studies At Last Week's American Society Of Anesthesiologists' Annual Meeting
Categorie : Pain / AnestheticsMasimo, the inventor of Pulse CO-Oximetry and Read-Through Motion and Low Perfusion pulse oximetry, reported that multiple independent and objective clinical studies and a case study were presented last week at the 2007 American Society of Anesthesiology (ASA) Annual Meeting in San Francisc ...
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Sun Oct 2007
KV Pharmaceutical Announces FDA Approval For Morphine ER 100 Mg And 200 Mg Tablets
Categorie : Pain / AnestheticsKV Pharmaceutical Company (NYSE: KVa/KVb) announced that it has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on its application for the 100 mg and 200 mg strengths of Morphine ER Tablets (MS Contin(R) marketed by Purdue Pharma L.P.). This approval now allows ETHEX Corporation ...
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Sun Oct 2007
Neuropathic Pain Effectively Treated By Smoked Cannabis
Categorie : Pain / AnestheticsSmoked cannabis eased pain induced in healthy volunteers, according to a study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Center for Medical Cannabis Research (CMCR.) However, the researchers found that less may be more.In the placebo controlled study of 15 subjects, a low dose ...
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Sun Oct 2007
Nonhormonal Drug Reduces Hot Flashes In Men Treated For Prostate Cancer
Categorie : Pain / AnestheticsNorth Central Cancer Treatment Group (http://ncctg/) researchers based at Mayo Clinic (http://www.mayo.edu/) in Rochester, Minn., have discovered that low doses of a drug used to prevent epileptic seizures and to treat nerve pain caused by shingles substantially reduces hot flashes in patients who a ...
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Fri Jun 2007
Laziness Increases Back Pain Risk
Categorie : Pain / AnestheticsOfficeworkers who rarely exercise are at increased risk of back injuries, according to UQ researchers working on a European Space Agency study. The researchers participated in the Agency's Berlin Bed-Rest Study, monitoring 20 healthy, young men who spent 56 days lying in bed. Lead researcher Dr Dani ...
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Thu Jun 2007
Single-Topic Issue Of JRRD On Pain And Pain Management
Categorie : Pain / AnestheticsEffects of depression and pain severity on satisfaction in medical outpatients: Analysis of the Medical Outcomes Study, pg. 143 Patient satisfaction is a critical measure of healthcare quality. We performed this study to see how depression and pain severity affected patient satisfaction in medical ...
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Wed Jun 2007
Labopharm Receives Second Approvable Letter From FDA For Once-Daily Tramadol
Categorie : Pain / AnestheticsLabopharm Inc. (TSX: DDS, NASDAQ: DDSS) today announced that it has received a second approvable letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its once-daily formulation of tramadol. [click link for full article] ...
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Fri Jun 2007
Preliminary Evaluation Of Reliability And Criterion Validity Of Actiwatch-Score
Categorie : Pain / AnestheticsRestoration of normal physical activity is a primary objective of most chronic pain rehabilitative interventions,yet few clinically practical objective measures of activation exist. We evaluated the measurement properties of the Actiwatch-Score (AW-S). We conducted separate trials to examine concord ...
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Fri Jun 2007
Pain And Combat Injuries In Soldiers Returning From Operations Enduring Freedom And Iraqi Freedom: Implications For Research And Practice
Categorie : Pain / AnestheticsOperations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom have resulted in a growing number of seriously injured soldiers evacuated to the United States for medical care. Trauma-related pain is almost always present among these war-injured soldiers. Several military and Department of Veterans Affairs programs h ...
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Fri Jun 2007
Effects Of Depression And Pain Severity On Satisfaction In Medical Outpatients: Analysis Of The Medical Outcomes Study
Categorie : Pain / AnestheticsPatient satisfaction is a critical measure of healthcare quality. We performed this study to see how depression and pain severity affected patient satisfaction in medical outpatients. We analyzed data from the Medical Outcomes Study and found that pain was very common and patients with depression an ...
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Fri Jun 2007
Kids In Pain: Documentary Shows How Teens Learn To Live With Pain
Categorie : Pain / AnestheticsA Bath-based service that helps children and adolescents who suffer from long-term pain will be highlighted in a Channel 4 documentary on Sunday ('When the drugs don't work', 3 June, 8.20am). The documentary's director, Kate Monaghan, is a former patient of the Bath Pain Management Unit who wanted ...
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Fri Jun 2007
IDD Therapy Offers Non-Surgical Back Pain Relief
Categorie : Pain / AnestheticsSuffering from acute or chronic lower back pain? There is an innovative treatment option at the Advanced Physical Medicine Center locally in Fairview, N.J, which will get you back on your feet. "There are only a handful of these machines in Bergen County," explains Dr. Michael Arber, a chiroprac ...
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Fri Jun 2007
Determining Mild, Moderate, And Severe Pain Equivalency Across Pain-intensity Tools In Nursing Home Residents
Categorie : Pain / AnestheticsMore than 80% of nursing home residents have chronic pain, and of these, many are not gettingadequate treatment. Good pain treatment begins with knowing how severe the pain is. Several differentpain-intensity tools are available: one uses a number (0â?"10) scale, another uses words, and a third show ...
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Fri Jun 2007
Pain And Palliative Medicine
Categorie : Pain / AnestheticsPain control is an important part of medical care for patients with advanced illnesses. We summarize available information on pain in different patient groups near the end of life and on developments using behavioral and physical therapy methods to treat pain. Clinical trials to treat pain in patien ...
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Fri Jun 2007
Persistent Benefits Of Rehabilitation On Pain And Life Quality For Non-ambulatory Patients With Spinal Epidural Metastasis
Categorie : Pain / AnestheticsWe evaluated the long-term effects of a 2-week course of rehabilitation on people with paraplegia caused by cancer compressing the spinal cord. Twelve patients received rehabilitation that focused on transfers, skin care, bladder and bowel management, nutrition, and incentive spirometry. We compared ...
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Fri Jun 2007
Aggressive Treatment For Whiplash Does Not Promote Faster Recovery
Categorie : Pain / AnestheticsWhiplash, the most common traffic injury, leads to neck pain, headache and other symptoms, resulting in a significant burden of disability and health care utilization. Although there are few effective treatments for whiplash, a growing body of evidence suggests that the type and intensity of treatme ...
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Wed May 2007
More Difficult For Doctors To Diagnose Complex Sources Of Pain In Women Than In Men
Categorie : Pain / AnestheticsIt is more difficult for doctors to diagnose complex sources of pain inwomen than in men and the reasons for this are rooted in language use. Thisfinding, which is of major importance for both doctors and patients, isrevealed by a now completed project by the FWF Austrian Science Fund. Theresults of ...
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Mon May 2007
Health Tip: Healing Hemorrhoids (HealthDay)
Categorie : Pain / AnestheticsHemorrhoids occur when veins in the rectum become swollen and painful. Symptoms may include tender bumps near the anus, or blood found on toilet paper after a bowel movement. ...
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Wed May 2007
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