Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics
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Aliment. Pharmacol. Ther. · Aug 2010
Trauma history and risk of the irritable bowel syndrome in women veterans.
Over 1.8 million women in the U.S. are veterans of the armed services. They are at increased risk of occupational traumas, including military sexual trauma. ⋯ Women veterans report high frequency of physical and sexual traumas. A lifetime history of a broad range of traumas is independently associated with an elevated risk of the irritable bowel syndrome.
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Aliment. Pharmacol. Ther. · Aug 2010
Sedation in digestive endoscopy: the Athens international position statements.
Guidelines and practice standards for sedation in endoscopy have been developed by various national professional societies. No attempt has been made to assess consensus among internationally recognized experts in this field. ⋯ While the standards of practice vary from country to country, there was broad agreement among participants regarding most issues pertaining to sedation during endoscopy.
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Aliment. Pharmacol. Ther. · Aug 2010
ReviewSystematic review: the use of nitrous oxide gas for lower gastrointestinal endoscopy.
Nitrous oxide gas (N(2)O) has been proposed as an alternative to intravenous (i.v.) analgesia in patients undergoing lower gastrointestinal endoscopy. ⋯ For patients undergoing colonoscopy, N(2)O provides comparable analgesia to i.v. sedation. The rapid psychomotor recovery with N(2)O enables quicker patient discharge and removes the need for a patient to be chaperoned. Benefit was not seen from N(2)O in patients undergoing flexible sigmoidoscopy possibly because it was delivered on demand rather than continuously.