Articles: opioid-analgesics.
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Jan 2022
Palliative care in Latin America: Are we making any progress? Assessing development over time using macro indicators.
Monitoring and reporting palliative care development serves to identify progress as well as remaining challenges for improvement. ⋯ Significant advances in palliative care development in Latin America have been achieved. The ALCP-II Index is useful for assessing and comparing palliative care development across countries.
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of sevoflurane-remifentanil (SR) vs propofol-remifentanil (PR) as inhalation anesthesia or total intravenous anesthesia in patients undergoing craniotomy, respectively. ⋯ SR and PR as anesthetics in patients underwent craniotomy had similar effects, but PR was superior to SR in terms of safety of intraoperation and postoperation.