Depending on the location of the catheter, epidural analgesia can be used to help relieve pain associated with chest, abdominal, and lower extremity surgery. A member of the anesthesiology team will ...

The value of pain control includes improved patient satisfaction, decreased complication rates, shortened stays following surgery, and potentially reduced exposure to litigation. [8,13] Methods ...

Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) was introduced into hospitals in the 1970s to improve the quality of postoperative pain control, and since then it has been a popular option. Patients like PCA ...

An analgesia machine is a device used to administer a light inhalation anesthetic to sedate patients and relieve their sensitivity to pain but without causing an actual loss of consciousness.

Amanda Shelby, RVT, VTS (Anesthesia; Analgesia), urges clinicians to "read between the lines" of anesthetic cases to improve ...

Recent study aimed to compare the outcomes of opioid-free anesthesia (OFA) and opioid-based anesthesia (OBA) with ...

Multimodal analgesia, which uses multiple types of pain medication to reduce pain, has been shown to be more effective at ...

Recent study was conducted to compare the efficacy of two different nerve block techniques for postoperative pain management ...