Opioid drugs are important tools to alleviate pain of different origins, but they have strong
addictive potential and their abuse at higher doses often results in serious health …

Results: For better understanding, the results are reported in to separate subheadings
including “Parenteral agents” and “Regional blocks”. Non-opioids analgesics such as …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: The objective was to quantify the analgesic effect of a dose of
intravenous morphine, 0.1 mg/kg, to emergency department (ED) patients presenting in …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: We compare a standard weight-based dose of intravenous
hydromorphone (Dilaudid) to a standard weight-based dose of intravenous morphine in …

Background: Some practitioners and investigators have presumed relationships between
pain scores and heart rate, blood pressure, or respiratory rate. Previous literature has not …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: We compare pain relief and safety of morphine 0.10 mg/kg with 0.15
mg/kg in adult emergency department (ED) patients with acute pain. METHODS: This was a …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: We aimed to determine the best intravenous morphine titration protocol
by comparing 2 protocols for prehospital treatment of patients with severe acute pain …

It has been estimated that an emergency department with 75,000 patients per year can
expect up to 262 monthly visits from fabricating drug-seeking patients. Distinguishing drug …

Although local anesthesia usually is used in surgical procedures, field or nerve blocks can
provide more effective anesthesia in some situations. In a field block, local anesthetic is …

Abstract Background and Objective: The analgesic effect of codeine depends on the
formation of the opioid metabolites morphine and morphine-6-glucuronide. Different factors …