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 | | The authors conclude that, assuming that a mixture of analgesic techniques is used, an incidence of respiratory depression, as defined by a low ventilatory frequency, of less than 1% would be expected, and an incidence of hypotension related to analgesic technique of less than 5%. | | | For epidural analgesia, the mean (95% CI) reported incidence of respiratory depression varied between 1.1% (0.6% to 1.9%) and 15.1% (5.6% to 34.8%), using hypoventilation and oxygen desaturation, respectively, as indicators. | | | For PCA, the mean (95% CI) reported incidence of respiratory depression varied between 1.2% (0.7% to 1.9%) and 11.5% (5.6% to 22.0%), using hypoventilation and oxygen desaturation, respectively, as indicators. |
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http://www.frca.co.uk/JournalView.aspx?jid=66
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| | The Double Effect of Pain Medication |
| | Nevertheless, these investigators pointed out that respiratory depression is a "constant concern" of practitioners, who assume respiratory symptoms in cancer patients to be opioid induced. | | | Bleich noted that the connection of respiratory depression with pain control is based more on myth than on medical fact, and argued that the PDE should not be applied to the risk of hastening death from pain medication. | | | Although this literature has clearly established that opioid use can lead to respiratory depression, much of this data may not be relevant to dying patients receiving opioids for chronic pain relief. |
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| | IASP Newsletter Technical Corner: Respiratory Effects of Opioids |
| | Depression of level of consciousness is an extremely useful guide to observing clinical effect in patients receiving opioids. | | | Control of respiratory rate and depth is also modulated by airway resistance, sleep state, sensation of stretch in the chest wall, and a variety of other factors and disease states. | | | Fear of respiratory depression, however realistic or exaggerated, represents a major barrier to the most effective use of opioids in management of pain. |
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http://www.iasp-pain.org/TC97JulyAug.html
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| | Opioids and Respiratory Depression |
| | Nearly all experienced respiratory care practitioners have witnessed opioid-induced respiratory depression in the intensive care unit, or have been summoned to the postanesthesia care unit to provide support for respiratory failure caused by opioids. | | | The clinical observation most emphasized was the patient's level of sedation, which is closely correlated with respiratory insufficiency. | | | Providing adequate and satisfactory pain relief with a minimum of respiratory risk is an important adjunct to patient recovery. |
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http://www.rcjournal.com/contents/01.99/01.99.078.asp
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| | NursingCenter - Professional Development - CE Article |
| | The frequency of respiratory assessment varied from study to study and may not have detected all instances of respiratory depression. | | | Because sedation precedes respiratory depression, sedation is a vital component of assessment. | | | However, the risk of respiratory depression comes mainly from the action of opioids, not from surgery. |
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http://www.nursingcenter.com/prodev/ce_article.asp?tid=484922
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| | Drug-Induced Respiratory Depression |
| | Whenever a respiratory depressant is dispensed, it is vitally important to assess the patient’s medication profile to check for agents with alcohol in the formulation. | | | Unfortunately, this means that respiratory depression necessitates emergent supportive therapy when it occurs, even though the incidence of benzodiazepine-induced respiratory depression is low. | | | This is attributable to the respiratory stimulant effects of pain itself. |
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http://www.uspharmacist.com/oldformat.asp?url=newlook/files/Feat/ACF2ECE.cfm&pub_id=8&article_id=17
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| | Even if a patient were eligible for PCA treatment with prior art systems, these systems do not allow the patient to receive a more aggressive treatment because of the risk of inadvertent respiratory depression and thus the patient would not be able to obtain quicker and more effective pain relief from a more aggressive treatment. | | | In particular, clinical error associated with programming of PCA unit 150A would be reduced, thereby reducing the risks of respiratory depression associated with the administration of narcotic analgesics from use of PCA unit 150A. | | | Because of disadvantages associated with existing PCA systems, certain patients who might otherwise benefit from the PCA method of therapy may not be PCA candidates because of concerns about respiratory depression. |
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http://www.wipo.int/cgi-pct/guest/getbykey5?KEY=98/19734.980827&ELEMENT_SET=DECL
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| | Respiratory depression from neuraxial opioids |
| | This has been done successfully on surgical wards provided that nursing staff are well trained and monitoring includes respiratory rate and degree of sedation (10). | | | This has been recently questioned (2, 3) as the incidence of 0.6% is similar to that of morphine (4). | | | Rawal N, Wattwil M. Respiratory depression following epidural morphine: an experimental and clinical study. |
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| | Data Sheet |
| | analgesia, euphoria, miosis, bradycardia, respiratory depression, bronchoconstriction, muscle rigidity and suppression of cough reflexes. | | | Premedication (To be appropriately modified in the elderly, debilitated and those who have received other depressant medicines) 50 to 100 micrograms (1 to 2 mL) may be administered intramuscularly 30 to 60 minutes prior to surgery. | | | The onset of action of fentanyl is almost immediate when the medicine is given intravenously. |
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http://www.medsafe.govt.nz/Profs/Datasheet/f/FentanylcitrateinjUSP.htm
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| | eMedicine - Respiratory Acidosis : Article by Jackie A Hayes, MD, FCCP |
| | Findings on chest radiography that may help determine an etiology of respiratory acidosis include hyperinflation and diaphragm flattening secondary to severe obstructive airway disease, infiltrates secondary to pneumonias, elevated diaphragm related to diaphragmatic weakness or paralysis, pneumothorax, and atelectasis. | | | This study is useful in documenting respiratory muscle weakness but is difficult to perform and usually is carried out in specialized pulmonary function laboratories. | | | Hoo GW, Hakimian N, Santiago SM: Hypercapnic respiratory failure in COPD patients: response to therapy. |
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http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic2008.htm
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| | ARCHI - Helping Nurses to Recognise and Manage Respiratory Depression |
| | Nurses are the principal health professionals responsible for the care of post-operative patients with epidural analgesia. | | | Results show that the nurses improved their knowledge and found the experience and feedback beneficial. | | | Results show that nurses improved their knowledge and found the experience and feedback beneficial. |
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http://www.archi.net.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/119138/fromItemId/117541
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| | Deep anesthesia depresses renal blood flow and urine flow by circulatory depression and reflex vasoconstriction, stimulates release of ADH | | | Dissociative anesthetic agents induce and anesthetic state by interruption of ascending transmission from the unconscious to conscious parts of the brain rather than by generalized depression of all brain centers | | | Unconsciousness with progressive depression of reflexes, divided into 3 planes |
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http://www.neamc.com/anesthesia_cvt.htm
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| | Tramadol |
| | Tramadol: pain relief by an opioid without depression of respiration. | | | Houmes M, Voets MA, Verkaaik A, Erdmann W, Lachmann B. Efficacy and safety of tramadol versus morphine for moderate and severe postoperative pain with special regard to respiratory depression. | | | Proven efficacy in a broad range of painful conditions |
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http://www.medsafe.govt.nz/Profs/PUarticles/tramadol.htm
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| | Go Seek It respiratory depression |
| | Our work was endless in order to find the best information we could on respiratory depression to decide on the top sites for you. | | | You won't believe the depth of our online investigations for information on respiratory depression and guide you to the best site to click to. | | | Finding the most useful respiratory depression sites is often difficult. |
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http://www.go-seekit.com/depression/respiratory-depression.htm
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| | Respiratory Depression |
| | Occasionally, respiratory depression occurs when pain is abruptly relieved and the sedative effects of opioids are no longer opposed by the stimulating effects of pain. | | | The dose of naloxone should be titrated to the patient's respiratory rate. | | | Because many patients in the terminal phase have been receiving opioid pain medications for a significant period of time, the fear of shortening life by medication is usually unfounded. |
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http://www.hivpositive.com/f-PainHIV/Pain/LS3.3.4.4.html
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| | Doxapram Hydrochloride, Dopram, Respiratory Stimulants, Respiratory Depression Reversal Prescription Drugs, Medications |
| | Purchase Doxapram Hydrochloride, Dopram, Respiratory Stimulants, Respiratory Depression Reversal Prescription Drugs, Medications at Discount Pharmacies Online:"The Discount Pharmacies Online gives consumers the chance to buy prescription drugs at discount prices from the privacy of their homes. | | | Doxapram Hydrochloride, Clinical Pharmacology, RXlist:"Doxapram hydrochloride produces respiratory stimulation mediated through the peripheral carotid chemoreceptors. | | | Doxapram Hydrochloride(Dopram), Description, Drugs.com:"Doxapram is indicated to stimulate deep breathing in postoperative patients and to stimulate respiration in patients with drug-induced postanesthesia respiratory depression or apnea not associated with muscle relaxants." |
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http://www.lopez1.com/lopez/drugs/respiratory/doxapram.hydrochloride.dopram.htm
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| | In the first few days of opioid therapy, patients should be monitored closely. | | | Opioid naive patients in acute pain are far more susceptible to respiratory depression than patients who have been receiving regularly scheduled opioid therapy for 5 days or more. | | | Respiratory depression occurs before a patient becomes sedated. |
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http://www.rnceus.com/ages/side.htm
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| | Nursing: Treating oversedation and respiratory depression |
| | Continue the infusion until her respiratory status stabilizes. | | | Withholding opioids from a surgical patient for 24 hours will cause needless suffering and may delay her recovery. | | | Administering naloxone, an opioid antagonist, will reverse morphine-induced oversedation and respiratory depression. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3689/is_199812/ai_n8821043
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| | Promethazine and Fatal Respiratory Depression In Children Under Age 2 - Use Contraindicated |
| | Clinicians should use promethazine with caution in any pediatric patient. | | | The FDA and Wyeth are warning clinicians that promethazine (Phenergan®) is contraindicated in children less than 2 years of age because fatal respiratory depression may occur. | | | Promethazine and Fatal Respiratory Depression In Children Under Age 2 - Use Contraindicated |
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http://uuhsc.utah.edu/pharmacy/alerts/70.html
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| | AllRefer Health - Opioid Intoxication (Intoxication - Opioids) |
| | Reviewed By : Todd Severson, M.D., Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network. | | | An abnormal mental state, generally of excessive sleepiness or unconsciousness (depending on the degree of intoxication), and usually associated with respiratory depression and small pupils, that is caused by opium or its derivatives (which include: morphine, heroin, oxycodone, and the synthetic opioid narcotics). |
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http://health.allrefer.com/health/opioid-intoxication-info.html
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| | Respiratory depression - definition of Respiratory depression in Encyclopedia |
| | It can be caused by medical conditions, or by holding the breath. | | | Respiratory depression - definition of Respiratory depression in Encyclopedia | | | It generally causes increased carbon dioxide concentration (hypercapnia) and respiratory acidosis. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Respiratory_depression
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| | Benzodiazepines cause CNS and respiratory depression; administration with other drugs* which also have these effects increases the risk of these effects; monitor clinical effects and reduce benzodiazepine dose if appropriate. | | | –inhibits metabolism of midazolam prolonging its sedative and respiratory depressant effects; reduce midazolam dose (possibly to one-quarter) and monitor clinical effect. | | | –may inhibit metabolism of alprazolam; may enhance sedation and cause respiratory depression; consider an alternative benzodiazepine, eg lorazepam or oxazepam, or monitor clinical effects and reduce alprazolam dose if necessary. |
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| | Effects of morphine and respiratory depression on sulfobromophthalein disposition in rats. |
| | Effects of morphine and respiratory depression on sulfobromophthalein disposition in rats. | | | Since narcotics depress respiration, effects of hypoxia, hypercapnia, and acidosis on BSP disposition were studied. | | | Ambient gases breathed by rats were adjusted to achieve blood gas levels identical to those of morphine-induced respiratory depression. |
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| | AAN: Diastat (Diazepam Rectal Gel) Does Not Produce Respiratory Depression In Epileptics |
| | Two patients reported adverse events (lethargy in both cases) however, no change in the respiratory status of these patients was noted. | | | No episodes of clinical respiratory depression were associated with the use of diazepam rectal gel. | | | She added that additional research regarding the effect of diazepam rectal gel on respiratory response is warranted. |
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http://www.docguide.com/dg.nsf/PrintPrint/69E8B4D1F9E047FC85256A480043C5BE
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| | Famvir Category |
| | The patient has entered into a field of a lesion Attributes a dyspnea, depression of duration of the respiratory certificate. |
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| | MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Opioid intoxication |
| | Opium and its derivatives (which include morphine, heroin, oxycodone, and the synthetic opioid narcotics) generate an abnormal mental state, generally characterized by excessive sleepiness or unconsciousness (depending on the degree of intoxication), and usually associated with respiratory depression and small pupils. |
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http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000948.htm
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| | Anesthesia |
| | Neuraxial blockade reduces the risk of deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, transfusion, pneumonia, respiratory depression, myocardial infarction and renal failure[1]. | | | Conquering surgical pain: Four men stake their claim |
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/anesthesia
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| | respiratory depression morphine - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | You can look up the words in the phrase individually using these links: respiratory depression morphine | | | Sorry, no dictionaries indexed in the selected category contain the phrase respiratory depression morphine. | | | If you're sure it's a word, try doing a general web search for respiratory depression morphine: Google, AltaVista |
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