conclusions our study shows that there is improvement in pain scores, at rest and on movement, as well as a reduction in incidence of severe pain, in patients who receive cfnb versus those who receive intravenous pca. results our results show that the incidence of a severe pain episode was higher in the pca compared with the cfnb group. lower pain scores were observed in the cfnb group compared...

Acute abdominal pain is a popular descriptor that has evolved from the seminal definition by Sir Zachary Cope of abdominal pain of recent onset that triggers an urgent need for prompt diagnosis and active treatment.1 The nature of the pain is usually such that the parent seeks immediate medical evaluation by a general pediatrician or emergency room physician. An acute complaint of abdominal pai...

Acute abdominal pain is one of the most common presentations encountered in the emergency department (ED). The differential diagnosis of acute abdominal pain is extensive and identifying the underlying etiology can be challenging. Spontaneous renal artery thrombosis is a rare cause of acute abdominal pain. We review a case of acute presentation of renal artery thrombosis in a patient without ri...

Cancer requires appropriate assessment (diagnostic interventions), treatment interventions (hormonal therapy, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, surgery) or palliative symptom management [1,3]. These all interventions may lead to acute pain syndrome including neuropathies due to injuries to nerves during surgical intervention, acute neurotoxicity due to chemotherapeutic agents and acute radiation indu...

Patients with acute whiplash-associated disorder (WAD) demonstrate an inefficient endogenous pain inhibition and may experience a dysfunction in autonomic nervous system reactivity to pain. This study compared the autonomic response to painful stimuli between patients with acute and chronic WAD and healthy controls. In addition, the role of the autonomic nervous system for explaining inefficien...

conclusions this study showed that abdominal pain, fever, leukocytosis, and wbcs in the stool were associated with gastroenteritis infection caused by campylobacter. results there were 36 positive cultures (8.6%) for campylobacter, with frequencies of 6.4% and 10.3% for boys and girls, respectively (p = 0.16). the highest frequency of positive culture belonged to the age group over six years (p...

conclusions the os trigonum syndrome should take in consideration in elderly subject who had posterior ankle pain starting after a car accident. case presentation a 62-year-old female patient was admitted with load depended ankle pain and swelling, lasting for five years which promptly started after a car accident. we incidentally discovered os trigonum on plain radiography on a lateral view of...

OBJECTIVE Chronic post surgical pain (CPSP) occurres frequently (from 10% to 50%) and has serious effects on the mood and activities of patients. This study was designed to evaluate the relationship between acute post surgical pain and chronic post surgical pain. METHODS Electronic search databases included PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane database and web of science. 9-stars Newcastle-Ottawa Scale w...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Vaginal birth delivery may result in acute and persistent perineal pain postpartum. This study evaluated the association between catastrophizing, a phenomenon of poor psychological adjustment to pain leading the individual to magnify the painful experience making it more intense, and the incidence and severity of perineal pain and its relationship to perineal trauma. ...

introduction: although the synergistic effects of opioids and other analgesic drugs such as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (nsaids) have been established in relieving acute pain due to renal calculi, no studies today have evaluated the concomitant administration of opiates and other drugs with analgesic effects, such as serotonin re-uptake inhibitors. considering the high prevalence of r...