March 16, 2004 — An investigational fentanyl patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) transdermal system was found to provide postsurgical pain control equivalent to that of a standard intravenous (IV) ...

The Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety is urging healthcare providers to boost electronic monitoring, including the use of both capnography and pulse oximetry, of all patients using ...

Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) is a pain-management technique that allows patients to self-administer predetermined doses of pain medication using a programmable pump. 1 This approach offers ...

As noted above, and in other reports in our newsletters, PCA errors can be deadly. Thus, special precautions are needed when administering narcotics to patients using this method of delivery, ...

Bryanne Patail, biomedical engineer at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for Patient Safety, discusses patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) pumps and what the Veterans Health ...

Pfizer Inc PFE's Hospira unveiled the LifeCare PCA 7.0 Infusion System. According to the company, as the first patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) infusion pump to provide electronic medical record ...

AcelRx Announces Primary Endpoint Met in Phase 3 Non-Inferiority Study of Sublingual Sufentanil NanoTab PCA System vs. IV PCA Morphine for Post-Operative Pain -In this open-label study, the Sufentanil ...

Respiratory depression has been associated with the use of opioid analgesics. However, a recent study by researchers at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, Kan., suggests exhaled CO2 monitoring of ...

Objectives: To describe the first use of intravenous (IV) ketamine as the sole agent in a patient-controlled analgesic delivery system (ie PCA) in a patient with cervical syringomyelia. Setting: A ...

New York, May 26, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "Global Patient-Controlled Analgesic Pumps Market By Type, By Application, By End-use, By Regional ...