Pain Management

Automated Pain Assessment using Electrodermal Activity Data and Machine Learning.

Objective pain assessment is required for appropriate pain management in the clinical setting. Howev...

Robotic Rehabilitation and Spinal Cord Injury: a Narrative Review.

Mobility after spinal cord injury (SCI) is among the top goals of recovery and improvement in qualit...

Machine-learned analysis of the association of next-generation sequencing-based human TRPV1 and TRPA1 genotypes with the sensitivity to heat stimuli and topically applied capsaicin.

Heat pain and its modulation by capsaicin varies among subjects in experimental and clinical setting...

Drug-drug interaction extraction via hierarchical RNNs on sequence and shortest dependency paths.

MOTIVATION: Adverse events resulting from drug-drug interactions (DDI) pose a serious health issue. ...

Comparative Analysis of Duration of Postoperative Analgesia between Levobupivacaine and Levobupivacaine with Clonidine after Ultrasound-Guided Transversus Abdominis Plane Block in Patients Undergoing Lower Segment Cesarean Section.

BACKGROUND: Transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block in cesarean section is carried out by local anes...

Comparative Evaluation of Ropivacaine and Ropivacaine with Dexamethasone in Transverse Abdominis Plane Block for Lower Abdominal Surgeries: A Prospective, Randomized, Double-Blinded Study.

CONTEXT: Dexamethasone as an adjunct to ropivacaine has shown promising results in prolonging the du...

Labor Epidural Analgesia: Comparison of Two Different Intermittent Bolus Regimes.

BACKGROUND: Optimal labor analgesia can be provided with epidural by addition of opioid to the local...

Addition of Dexmedetomidine to Ropivacaine in Subcostal Transversus Abdominis Plane Block Potentiates Postoperative Analgesia among Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Patients: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial.

CONTEXT: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is associated with moderate intensity postoperative pain espec...

Comparison of Two Different Volumes of Ropivacaine Used in Nerve Stimulator Guided Inter-scalene Block for Arthroscopic Shoulder Surgery - A Randomized Controlled Trial.

BACKGROUND: This study was conducted to compare the analgesic efficacy of 10 ml versus 20 mL of 0.5%...

Effect and Safety of Labor Epidural Analgesia with Intermittent Boluses of 0.1% Bupivacaine with Fentanyl on Fetal and Maternal Outcomes and Wellbeing.

BACKGROUND: Labor analgesia has been shown to have few undesirable effects on the course and outcome...

[RETROPERITONEAL LIPOSARCOMA WITH MULTIPLE RECURRENCE OF LUNG METASTASES TREATED BY MULTIMODAL THERAPY CENTERING ON THE OPERATION: A CASE REPORT].

A 34-year-old man presented with scrotal pain and slight fever. The scrotal pain was improved by the...

Research: Use of Dry Electroencephalogram and Support Vector for Objective Pain Assessment.

The reliability of normal gel-based electrode electroencephalogram (EEG) for measuring pain has been...

[Can artificial intelligence be used for assessing a patient with alcohol dependence?].

Design and Implementation of a Robotic Software for the Assessment of Pain in Children.

Pain in child population is presented as a vital process which produces a variation in capacities an...

Robot-Assisted Body-Weight-Supported Treadmill Training in Gait Impairment in Multiple Sclerosis Patients: A Pilot Study.

This study deals with the use of a robot-assisted body-weight-supported treadmill training in multip...

[A sketch of the overlap in the neural circuitry underlying psychological- and physical-pain].

From the phenomenological point of view, pain can be classified into psychological-pain and physical...

Clinical and Electrophysiological Analysis of Chronic Eyelid Twitching.

PURPOSE: Nearly everyone had experience of eyelid twitching (ET) and most physicians think it is ben...

[A Two-Stage Right Hemicolectomy Case in Which the First Surgery Was Laparoscopic Ileocecal Resection Based on Preoperative Diagnosis of Acute Appendicitis].

We report a case oftwo -stage right hemicolectomy in which the first surgery performed was laparosco...

Effects of nefopam on emergence agitation after general anesthesia for nasal surgery: A prospective, randomized, and controlled trial.

BACKGROUND: Emergence agitation (EA) occurs frequently after nasal surgery. N-methyl-D-aspartate (NM...

A Machine Learning-based Surface Electromyography Topography Evaluation for Prognostic Prediction of Functional Restoration Rehabilitation in Chronic Low Back Pain.

STUDY DESIGN: A retrospective study.

Prediction of persistent post-surgery pain by preoperative cold pain sensitivity: biomarker development with machine-learning-derived analysis.

BACKGROUND: To prevent persistent post-surgery pain, early identification of patients at high risk i...