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J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol. 2003 Jun;16(2):121-5.
Unrecognized medical disorders in older psychiatric inpatients in a senior behavioral health unit in a university hospital.
Woo BK, Daly JW, Allen EC, Jeste DV, Sewell DD.
School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, USA.
Medical disorders may cause psychiatric symptoms. This study investigated the frequency and nature of previously unrecognized medical disorders associated with behavioral disturbances in acute geriatric psychiatry inpatients. Data came from a chart review of 79 consecutive admissions to the University of California, San Diego, Senior Behavioral Health Unit from May 1999 to October 1999. The most common Axis I admission diagnoses were depression and psychosis. At admission, 27 of 79 cases (34%) had unrecognized medical disorders. Comparison of these cases with the cases that did not have unrecognized medical disorders found no differences in age, education, gender, or cognitive abilities. The group with unrecognized medical disorders had more medical disorders (mean 5.0 vs 3.6; P = .002). Unrecognized conditions (n) included constipation (7), urinary infection (7), and hypothyroidism (5). Elderly psychiatric patients are more likely to have physical comorbidity. A large number of medical disorders should alert clinicians to look carefully for unrecognized medical disorders.
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Eur Surg Res. 2003 Jul-Aug;35(4):363-71.
Evaluation of quality in patient-controlled analgesia provided by an acute pain service.
Karci A, Tasdogen A, Erkin Y, Sahinoz B, Kara H, Elar Z.
Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey.
Institutions with quality management programs need to evaluate the quality of perioperative pain management as well as other aspects of the health service. With the development of anesthesia-based pain services, improvement in this field has been reported. In this prospective study performed in a university hospital, we used a Postoperative Pain Therapy Assessment Questionnaire to quantify the effectiveness of pain therapy and factors affecting the degree of satisfaction and also to pinpoint areas that need improvement. A total of 915 patients who received patient-controlled analgesia for postoperative pain were included in the study; it seems to be the largest patient population from a single hospital. Data were collected as part of the hospital's quality improvement activities. By analyzing the questionnaires, we found that patients were satisfied with the pain therapy performed under the guidance of anesthesiologists, but predictors of satisfaction such as pain intensity and side effects (nausea, vomiting, constipation and difficulty in walking) decreased patient satisfaction considerably. Patients are aware of the fact that health care givers take postoperative care seriously and they do not want any untoward effects interrupting their postoperative care. They are trying to participate in the decision making and also to learn more about pain medicine. Copyright 2003 S. Karger AG, Basel
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Neurosci Lett. 1992 Aug 3;142(1):62-4.
Oral naloxone reduces constipation but not antinociception from oral morphine in the rat.
Jurna I, Kaiser R, Kretz O, Baldauf J.
Institut fur Pharmakologie und Toxikologie, Universitat des Saarlandes, Homburg/Saar, FRG.
Oral administration of naloxone (10 mg/kg) antagonized the slowing of the intestinal transit caused by oral morphine (1, 2.5 and 5 mg/kg) in rats. Oral administration of naloxone (10 mg/kg) did not prevent the antinociceptive effect of orally administered morphine (2.5 mg/kg) in the tail-flick test carried out on rats. It is concluded that oral naloxone locally blocks the constipating effect of morphine, while it fails to reduce the central action of morphine due to extensive metabolization after oral administration.
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