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Analgesia
Analgesia is the decrease or absence of pain sensibility without a loss of consciousness. Experiencing pain relief may happen without a person needing to be unconscious.
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A 43-year old asked:
Do you develop drug tolerance to analgesia?
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What will you do if the analgesia is not effective?
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A 28-year old male asked:
What is the definition or description of: analgesia?
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A 41-year old asked:
Whats the difference between anesthesia and analgesia?
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A 41-year old asked:
For what length of time do they generally leave the catheter in as analgesia?
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A 65-year old male asked:
I am not sure what the formal medical definition of "analgesia" is. Is it something that is designed to ease pain or can it also include something that is used to treat a medical condition that MAY have the side-effect of easing pain?
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A 34-year old male asked:
Which nsaid offers the best analgesia?
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A 31-year old asked:
On my root canal bill it says analgesia. So what's that?
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A 39-year old asked:
What is analgesia and how is it used during a root canal?
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A 46-year old asked:
What is the purpose of using a pca - patient control analgesia?
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A 36-year old asked:
What are the common dental analgesia methods in addition to injection?
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A 74-year old male asked about a 90-year old male:
Is hydromorphone classified as a NSAID analgesia?
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A 39-year old asked:
Can you tell me how is clonidine used in analgesia?
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A 35-year old asked:
For C-section do they administer analgesia through IV line?
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A 48-year old female asked:
What has caused my pain under the right side of my tongue. It is so painful I have to take regular analgesia.?
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A 31-year old asked:
Which is better: an epidural or patient-controlled analgesia for pain after a surgery?
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A 34-year old asked:
Which is better--epidural or patient-controlled analgesia after surgery?
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A 23-year old male asked:
Can off continuous bladder drainage is still on epidural analgesia post op?
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A 30-year old asked:
Expert opinions? Which is better, epidural or patient-controlled analgesia for pain after surgery?
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A 34-year old male asked:
Which NSAID provides the best analgesia for moderate to severe OA pain, and spinal pain?
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A 41-year old asked:
Which is better, epidural or patient-controlled analgesia for pain control after surgery?
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A 35-year old female asked:
How to differentiate regular fever reaction to analgesia vs. Malignant hyperthermia?
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A male asked:
Why is it taboo to employ opioids to induce psychic analgesia, yet commonplace therapy for acute/chronic phyisical pain? Personal thoughts/ideas?
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A 36-year old female asked:
Trying to understand why my pain meds are ordered IM vs using my IV I have.(Hospice rn here - we avoid IM at all times) s/p total hysterectomy here. So benefit of using IM vs IV Dilaudid? Aren't they equal analgesia? Same peak, onset, duration
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A 32-year old female asked:
After what kind of surgeries would patient controlled analgesia be used for post-operative recovery versus traditional physician-controlled pain mgmt?
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A 45-year old asked:
My epidural analgesia leaking, my cousin is in the hospital for a leg operation and he was given epidural, what to do?
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A 26-year old female asked:
Ive been experiencing severe frontal headaches 2/52 not responding to analgesia. I have seen a gp and done some physio therapy. Whats should i do next?
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A 25-year old male asked:
What is the analgesia used in peptic ulcer pt other than NSAID ?
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A 47-year old asked:
What should I expect from pain management?
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A 33-year old asked:
Relieving pain of a hangnail?
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