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...
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...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Apr 24, 2025
Postoperative pain is a relevant and unresolved problem in clinical practice. In order to reduce the occurrence of severe postoperative pain, preventive, multi-professional and target group-specific pain management should be implemented. Risk assessm...
Kathmandu University medical journal (KUMJ)
Jan 1, 2023
Background The tonsillectomy is the most common Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT) surgical procedure. Different methods have been used to improve the outcome of the surgery. One such method is tonsillectomy performed with bipolar scissors. In our scenario,...
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...
BACKGROUND: Long-term opioid use has negative health care consequences. Patients who undergo surgery are at risk for prolonged opioid use after surgery (POUS). While risk factors have been previously identified, no methods currently exist to determin...
Clinical orthopaedics and related research
Jul 1, 2020
BACKGROUND: Machine-learning methods such as the Bayesian belief network, random forest, gradient boosting machine, and decision trees have been used to develop decision-support tools in other clinical settings. Opioid abuse is a problem among civili...
Cancer and its surgical treatment are among the most important triggering events for persistent pain, but additional factors need to be present for the clinical manifestation, such as variants in pain-relevant genes. In a cohort of 140 women undergoi...
OBJECTIVE: Arthroscopic shoulder surgery (ASS) is often followed by severe pain. Interscalene brachial plexus block (ISB) was used to relieve such pain. The aim of the study was to compare the effect of adding either dexamethasone or ketamine to ISB ...
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