Pain Management

[Observation of curative effect of hemorrhoids lotion on pain, edema and bleeding after anorectal surgery].

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the value of Chinese herbal fumigation in the postoperative anal disease. The authors randomly divided 348 patients into treatment group and control group with 174 cases in each group. The treatment group was given to the Chinese herbal medicine hemorrhoids lotion for fumigation based on conventional anti infective therapy, routine dressing change and rela...

[The influence of the sedation based on remifentanil analgesia on the occurrence of delirium in critically ill patients].

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the influence of the midazolam sedation based on remifentanil analgesia on the occurrence of delirium in critically ill patients in intensive care unit (ICU).

Towards a predictive model for Guillain-Barré syndrome.

The severity of Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) varies among subtypes, which can be mainly Acute Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (AIDP), Acute...

The prevalence of problem opioid use in patients receiving chronic opioid therapy: computer-assisted review of electronic health record clinical notes.

To estimate the prevalence of problem opioid use, we used natural language processing (NLP) techniques to identify clinical notes containing text indi...

What can the medical record reveal about problem opioid use?

Ultrasound-guided subcostal transversus abdominis plane infiltration with liposomal bupivacaine for patients undergoing robotic-assisted hysterectomy: a retrospective study.

OBJECTIVE: We sought to determine the effect of a subcostal transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block with liposomal bupivacaine on postoperative maxima...

Feature selection using a neural framework with controlled redundancy.

We first present a feature selection method based on a multilayer perceptron (MLP) neural network, called feature selection MLP (FSMLP). We explain ho...

Extracting Dependence Relations from Unstructured Medical Text.

Dependence relations among disease and risk factors are a key ingredient in risk modeling and decision support models. Currently such information is e...

Analysis of Drug Design for a Selection of G Protein-Coupled Neuro- Receptors Using Neural Network Techniques.

A study is presented on how well possible drug-molecules can be predicted with respect to their function and binding to a selection of neuro-receptors...

Robot-assisted training to improve proprioception does benefit from added vibro-tactile feedback.

Proprioception is central for motor control and its role must also be taken into account when designing motor rehabilitation training protocols. This ...

Robust supervised segmentation of neuropathology whole-slide microscopy images.

Alzheimer's disease is characterized by brain pathological aggregates such as Aβ plaques and neurofibrillary tangles which trigger neuroinflammation a...

Artificial nociception and motor responses to pain, for humans and robots.

This concept paper describes nociception and the role of pain in humans. Understanding the mechanisms of pain can give insight into the implementation...

The effect of tramadol and tramadol + gabapentin combination in patients with lumbar disc herniation after epidural steroid injection.

BACKGROUND/AIM: To compare the effects of tramadol-only treatment and tramadol + gabapentin treatment in patients who had received an epidural steroid...

Effects of combined epidural analgesia with total intravenous anesthesia on risky patients underwent major abdominal surgery.

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of combined epidural analgesia with total intravenous anaesthesia and only total intra...

Task and postural factors are related to back pain in helicopter pilots.

BACKGROUND: A previous survey by Shear et al. revealed a high prevalence of back pain in Royal Navy helicopter aircrew, compared with controls. It was...