Intrathecal analgesia is an important option for "intractable" cancer pain that no longer responds to oral or injected pain medications. In this technique, a catheter is placed in the intrathecal ...

Journal information:Anesthesia & Analgesia Provided by Wolters Kluwer Health : New approach may allow faster spinal anesthesia for cancer patients at end of life (2013, May 28) retrieved 16 March ...

Similarly, for intrathecal analgesia in labor there seems to be no benefit in substituting racemic bupivacaine with ropivacaine or levobupivacaine in combination with sufentanil. [6] ...

Intrathecal analgesia via implanted pump is indicated when pain is severe despite “adequate trials of conventional medication” or when dose-limiting side effects are experienced.

The authors presumed that intrathecal bumetanide has analgesic effects on incisional pain through inhibition of NKCC1. This paper was published in Neural Regeneration Research (Vol. 9, No. 10, 2014).

New York, USA, Nov. 23, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- According to a latest report published by Research Dive, the intrathecal drug delivery system market is predicted to harbor significant market ...

MONTREAL, Canada — Neuraxial analgesia is a safe and effective alternative for the palliative care of cancer patients with refractory pain or opioid toxicity, researchers reported here at the ...

After initial epidural or intrathecal injection, both groups received patient-controlled epidural analgesia. The effectiveness of pain relief, rated on a 0-to-10 scale, was compared at different ...

When cancer cells are in, or could get to, the fluid around your brain, intrathecal chemotherapy is the way to deliver cancer-fighting drugs right to the area. Find out how it works and what you ...

To investigate the effects of GABA and glycine on analgesia in the central nervous system. Glycine, taurine, or muscimol was injected with bicuculline into the cistern magna or the lumbar ...