Pain Management

[ED50 of Intrathecal Isobaric Bupivacaine with Epidural Volume Extension for Cesarean Delivery].

OBJECTIVE: To determine the 50% effective dose (ED50) of intrathecal isobaric bupivacaine in combine...

Single injection of platelet-rich plasma as a novel treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome.

Both in vitro and in vivo experiments have confirmed that platelet-rich plasma has therapeutic effec...

Proposal for a Simple and Efficient Monthly Quality Management Program Assessing the Consistency of Robotic Image-Guided Small Animal Radiation Systems.

Modern pre-clinical radiation therapy (RT) research requires high precision and accurate dosimetry t...

[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...

Towards a predictive model for Guillain-Barré syndrome.

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

What can the medical record reveal about problem opioid use?

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) techniqu...

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 ...

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 treatmen...

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 mechanism...

Robust supervised segmentation of neuropathology whole-slide microscopy images.

Alzheimer's disease is characterized by brain pathological aggregates such as Aβ plaques and neurofi...

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 design...

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 func...

A Comparative Study of Bayes Net, Naive Bayes and Averaged One-Dependence Estimators for Osteoporosis Analysis.

This paper presents an evaluation of the accuracy of the Bayesian classifiers: Bayes Net, Naive Baye...

Extracting Dependence Relations from Unstructured Medical Text.

Dependence relations among disease and risk factors are a key ingredient in risk modeling and decisi...

Feature selection using a neural framework with controlled redundancy.

We first present a feature selection method based on a multilayer perceptron (MLP) neural network, c...

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 ...