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) ...

Use of a transdermal patch to deliver pain medication was found to be equivalent to medication delivered by an intravenous pump for controlling pain following surgery, according to a study in the ...

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 ...

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, ...

Understanding and predicting fatigue, cardiovascular (CV) decline, and events after breast cancer treatment (UPBEAT): A prospective cardio-oncology study. Background: The opioid dose for an individual ...

Pfizer Inc (NYSE: 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...