Pain and Opioid Use in Chronic Liver Disease

Intraoperative ketamine and chronic opioid use: less pain, more morphine?

operative quality recovery scale. ANESTHESIOLOGY 2010; 113:892–905 2. Fleisher LA, Yee K, Lillemoe KD, Talamini MA, Yeo CJ, Heath R, Bass E, Snyder DS, Parker SD: Is outpatient laparoscopic cholecystectomy safe and cost-effective? A model to study transition of care. ANESTHESIOLOGY 1999; 90:1746 –55 3. Vaghadia H, Cheung K, Henderson C, Stewart A, Lennox P: A quantification of discharge readine...

Rational Use of Opioid Analgesics in Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain

Throughout history, various forms of morphine have been the most effective medications in relieving pain. Opioid analgesics—the natural, semisynthetic, and synthetic derivatives of morphine—are used routinely in the management of acute musculoskeletal pain. However, myths and misunderstandings about these drugs often prevent primary care physicians from prescribing them for chronic pain, such a...

Principles of opioid use in chronic noncancer pain.

Rational Use of Opioid Analgesics in Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain

Throughout history, various forms of morphine have been the most effective medications in relieving pain. Opioid analgesics—the natural, semisynthetic, and synthetic derivatives of morphine—are used routinely in the management of acute musculoskeletal pain. However, myths and misunderstandings about these drugs often prevent primary care physicians from prescribing them for chronic pain, such a...

Intraoperative Ketamine and Chronic Opioid Use: Less Pain, More Morphine?

operative quality recovery scale. ANESTHESIOLOGY 2010; 113:892–905 2. Fleisher LA, Yee K, Lillemoe KD, Talamini MA, Yeo CJ, Heath R, Bass E, Snyder DS, Parker SD: Is outpatient laparoscopic cholecystectomy safe and cost-effective? A model to study transition of care. ANESTHESIOLOGY 1999; 90:1746 –55 3. Vaghadia H, Cheung K, Henderson C, Stewart A, Lennox P: A quantification of discharge readine...