British journal of anaesthesia
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Observational Study
Prediction of outliers in pain, analgesia requirement, and recovery of function after childbirth: a prospective observational cohort study.
Prediction models to identify parturients who experience protracted pain, prolonged opioid use, and delayed self-assessed functional recovery are currently inadequate. ⋯ Labour induction and elevated numerical rating score for pain are predictive of poor recovery after childbirth. Further research is necessary to determine whether modification would benefit mothers at risk for poor recovery.
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Observational Study
Evaluation of the analgesia nociception index for monitoring intraoperative analgesia in children.
Intraoperative analgesia is still administered without guidance. Anaesthetists decide upon dosing on the basis of mean population opioid pharmacological studies and in response to variations in haemodynamic status. However, those techniques have been shown to be imprecise. We assessed the diagnostic value of monitoring the analgesia nociception index (ANI) to detect surgical stimulation in children. ⋯ ANI has diagnostic value for detecting surgical stimuli in children.