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A 54-year-old man presents to a hospice inpatient unit for pain management and wound care. The patient’s medical history includes end-stage renal disease (ESRD), calciphylaxis, and type 2 diabetes. Review [...]

A 54-year-old man presents to a hospice inpatient unit for pain management and wound care. The patient’s medical history includes end-stage renal disease (ESRD), calciphylaxis, and type 2 diabetes. Review [...]

CBD is everywhere these days--in products from supplements to sparkling water to shampoo. What's the best way to benefit? A doctor and a pharmacist explain 'Hemp-derived CBD has a very [...]

2020 JAN 11 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Current study results on Mental Health - Addiction Research have been published. [...]

2019 AUG 24 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Current study results on Cancer have been published. According to news reporting [...]

ABSTRAL ProStrakan CII Opioid. Fentanyl 100mcg, 200mcg, 300mcg, 400mcg, 600mcg, 800mcg; sublingual tablets. Indications: Breakthrough pain, in opioid-tolerant patients already receiving and who are tolerant to continuous opioid therapy for [...]

ABSTRAL ProStrakan CII Opioid. Fentanyl 100mcg, 200mcg, 300mcg, 400mcg, 600mcg, 800mcg; sublingual tablets. Indications: Breakthrough pain, in opioid-tolerant patients already receiving and who are tolerant to continuous opioid therapy for [...]

ABSTRAL ProStrakan CII Opioid. Fentanyl 100mcg, 200mcg, 300mcg, 400mcg, 600mcg, 800mcg; sublingual tablets. Indications: Breakthrough pain, in opioid-tolerant patients already receiving and who are tolerant to continuous opioid therapy for [...]

2018 SEP 15 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Researchers detail new data in Surgery - Arthroplasty. According to news reporting [...]

2018 JUN 16 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Data detailed on Pain Medicine have been presented. According to news reporting [...]

ABSTRACT Management of severely brain-injured patients constitutes a social, economical, and ethical dilemma as well as a real challenge for the medical staff, as it requires specific expertise. The aim [...]

* UP UNTIL A FEW MONTHS AGO, Susan* started her day by getting high. She'd crush a cocktail of drugs that included Oxycontin and Rosicodone, two forms of the narcotio [...]

To authenticate to the full-text of this article, please visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-5415.2008.02166.x Byline: Bryan D. Hayes (*), Wendy Klein-Schwartz (*), Lawrence F. Gonzales (*) Keywords: therapeutic errors; medication errors; older adult; elderly Abstract: OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the reasons for unintentional therapeutic errors in older adults, the types of medications most frequently involved, and the medical outcomes related to these adverse drug events. DESIGN: Retrospective analysis of American Association of Poison Control Center's National Poison Data System (NPDS). SETTING: NPDS collects data from all U.S. poison centers. Data from 2002 to 2006 were examined. PARTICIPANTS: Cases involving adults aged 65 and older with a potentially toxic exposure due to unintentional therapeutic errors. MEASUREMENTS: Hazard factor analysis was conducted to identify medications that pose risk in this population. RESULTS: There were 140,786 older adults with reported therapeutic errors, of which 49,320 cases were followed to a known medical outcome. A major effect or death occurred in 596 cases (1.2% of cases with known medical outcome). The most common reasons for therapeutic errors were inadvertently took or given medication twice, wrong medication taken or given, and other incorrect dose. The reasons associated with the highest rate of major effect or death were drug interaction, health professional or iatrogenic error, and more than one product containing same ingredient. Certain medication classes such as analgesics, anticoagulants, anticonvulsants, asthma therapies, psychotherapeutics, and some cardiovascular agents were associated with high hazard factors. CONCLUSION: Poison center data can be used to evaluate therapeutic errors in older adults to identify reasons associated with frequently reported errors, as well as reasons and medications involved with errors that result in serious outcomes. Knowing the reasons why they occur can aid in developing strategies for decreasing unintentional errors in older adults. Author Affiliation: (*)From the Maryland Poison Center, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland. Article note: Address correspondence to Bryan D. Hayes, Maryland Poison Center, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, 220 Arch Street, Baltimore, MD 21201. E-mail: bryan_d_hayes@yahoo.com

To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2007.12.036 Byline: Amanda A. Fox (a), Stanton K. Shernan (a), Charles D. Collard (d), Kuang-Yu Liu (a), Sary F. Aranki (b), Stacia M. DeSantis (e), Petr Jarolim (c), Simon C. Body (a) Abbreviations: BNP, B-type natriuretic peptide; CABG, coronary artery bypass grafting; CHF, congestive heart failure; CI, confidence interval; CPB, cardiopulmonary bypass; cTnI, cardiac troponin I; IABP, intra-aortic balloon pump; LVEF, left ventricular ejection fraction; POD, postoperative day; VAD, ventricular assist device Abstract: Elevated B-type natriuretic peptide is associated with increased morbidity and mortality in ambulatory patients with congestive heart failure or acute coronary syndromes. Its utility in predicting adverse cardiac surgical outcomes is less certain. We hypothesized that preoperative plasma B-type natriuretic peptide would independently predict in-hospital postoperative ventricular dysfunction, hospital stay, and up to 5-year mortality after primary coronary artery bypass grafting. Author Affiliation: (a) Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass (b) Division of Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass (c) Department of Pathology, Division of Clinical Laboratories, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass (d) Baylor College of Medicine Division of Cardiovascular Anesthesia at the Texas Heart Institute, Saint Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Tex (e) Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass Article History: Received 15 August 2007; Revised 10 December 2007; Accepted 27 December 2007 Article Note: (footnote) Supported by Siemens Medical Solutions Diagnostics, Tarrytown, NY (grant funding and reagents for cTnI and BNP assays); University of Texas, Houston General Clinical Research Center Core Facilities Grant (NCRR M01 02558 providing pilot funding to A.A.F. and C.D.C); Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists Research Starter Grant (A.A.F.); and National Institutes of Health grant K23-HL068774 (S.C.B.).

2017 JUN 17 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Staff editors report on the newly launched clinical trial, NCT03173222, which has [...]

2017 APR 1 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Newswire/ -- Chronic pain from nerve injury is common and often debilitating. [...]

2017 MAR 11 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Following documentation of reports which indicate that the common over-the-counter (OTC) pain [...]

Neuropathic pain must be viewed as a multifaceted disorder with biologic, psychological, and social components. (1) The comprehensive management of neuropathic pain, therefore, involves not only relieving the pain, but [...]

Practice recommendation * Though all non-narcotic analgesics have equivalent efficacy against tension-type headache, ibuprofen's generally favorable side-effect profile makes it a reasonable first choice. Whereas quantitative and qualitative analyses of [...]

A normal, vaginal delivery might be expected and possible, but the would-be mother should also be ready for a Cesarean section (C-Section) as the number of women delivering by C-section in the US is almost one in three, where about 61 percent of these are first-time surgeries. After a C-section, it is important to take the painkiller medication on schedule to be free of pain and get more rest, also remembering that these medicines are compatible with breast-feeding.

Aside from the patient himself, no one understands your patient's pain better than you do. As his nurse, you probably have more one-on-one contact with him than most other health [...]