PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To summarize recent developments in the understanding of the pharmacology of the hypnotic and opioid drugs, with relevance to target-controlled infusions and newer pharmacokinetic models.
BACKGROUND: Despite advances in pain management, inadequate pain relief and opioid-related adverse events remain common challenges in perioperative care, often contributing to prolonged recovery and reduced quality of life. The perioperative opioid a...
Considering the limitations of use and side effects of existing analgesics, the discovery of new analgesics is necessary. Venoms of organisms are an important source of analgesic peptides. In this study, using computational biology methods such as mo...
IMPORTANCE: Individuals whose chronic pain is managed with opioids are at high risk of developing an opioid use disorder. Electronic health records (EHR) allow large-scale studies to identify a continuum of problematic opioid use, including opioid us...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jun 1, 2025
OBJECTIVE: Building upon our previous work on predicting chronic opioid use using electronic health records (EHR) and wearable data, this study leveraged the Health Equity Across the AI Lifecycle (HEAAL) framework to (a) fine tune the previously buil...
Previous studies reported that opioids depress breathing by inhibiting respiratory neural networks in the brainstem. The effects of opioids on sensory inputs regulating breathing are less studied. This study examined the effects of fentanyl and sufen...
BACKGROUND: The opioid epidemic in the United States remains a major public health concern, with opioid-related deaths increasing more than 8-fold since 1999. Chronic pain, affecting 1 in 5 US adults, is a key contributor to opioid use and misuse. Wh...
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to leverage machine learning techniques to analyze administrative claims and socioeconomic data, with the aim of identifying and interpreting the risk factors associated with high-dose opioid prescribing.
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 18, 2023
This paper aimed to detect the latent clusters of patients with opioid use disorder and to identify the risk factors affecting drug misuse using unsupervised machine learning. The cluster with the highest proportion of successful treatment outcomes w...
INTRODUCTION: There is a lack of clarity regarding the ideal local anaesthetic volume for modified thoracolumbar interfascial plane (mTLIP) block. This study was designed to investigate the analgesic efficacy of two different volumes of bupivacaine 0...
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