University of Zurich, Faculty of Medicine, Psychiatric University Hospital of Zurich, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Zurich, Switzerland.
Publications dans "Échelles d'évaluation en psychiatrie" :
University of Zurich, Faculty of Medicine, Psychiatric University Hospital of Zurich, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Zurich, Switzerland.
Publications dans "Échelles d'évaluation en psychiatrie" :
University of Zurich, Faculty of Medicine, Psychiatric University Hospital of Zurich, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Zurich, Switzerland.
Publications dans "Échelles d'évaluation en psychiatrie" :
University of Zurich, Faculty of Medicine, Psychiatric University Hospital of Zurich, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Zurich, Switzerland; University San Francisco de Quito, Faculty of Medicine, Quito, Ecuador.
Publications dans "Échelles d'évaluation en psychiatrie" :
University of Zurich, Faculty of Medicine, Psychiatric University Hospital of Zurich, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Zurich, Switzerland.
Publications dans "Échelles d'évaluation en psychiatrie" :
University of Zurich, Faculty of Medicine, Psychiatric University Hospital of Zurich, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Zurich, Switzerland.
Publications dans "Échelles d'évaluation en psychiatrie" :
University of Zurich, Faculty of Medicine, Psychiatric University Hospital of Zurich, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Zurich, Switzerland; University of Oviedo, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, ISPA, INEUROPA, CIBERSAM, Oviedo, Spain. Electronic address: stephan.egger@pukzh.ch.
Publications dans "Échelles d'évaluation en psychiatrie" :
The aim of this study was to identify factors associated with the outpatient narcotic intake of patients following posterior spinal fusion (PSF) for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) and to introd...
Following Institutional Review Board approval, retrospective review of prospectively collected data from patients undergoing PSF for AIS took place. Pain scores, narcotic use, patient demographic data...
Statistical analysis of 27 patients included in the study showed that patients with a higher home narcotic use correlated with increased length of hospitalization with an average of 3.4 days compared ...
Our study suggests that there are not a significant number of patient- or surgical-level factors predisposing patients to increased home narcotic usage following spinal fusion for adolescent idiopathi...
Level I, prospective study....
Methamphetamine use disorder (MUD) is a major public health problem, but there are no evidence-based, best-practice, pharmacologic, or behavioral treatments for it. Narcotics Anonymous (NA) may provid...
Two waves of surveys were sent to a sample of NA members to evaluate demographic, drug use, and NA-related issues. Of 4445 responses received from US residents, 647 listed themselves as abstinent from...
Methamphetamine respondents were longstanding NA members, with their first NA meeting 30.2 years ago, 84.3% having served as sponsors for other members, and with little current craving (0.65 out of 10...
NA served as a resource for supporting abstinence for some members with MUD. They scored social resources of NA support higher than both spiritual and outside institutional ones....
NA can serve as a community-based resource for MUD. Determining the nature of recovery that members with MUD have in NA can be useful for further research of socially grounded support for recovery in ...
Limited data exists for bupivacaine injection after Mohs micrographic surgery (MMS)....
Evaluate how bupivacaine affects postoperative pain and narcotic use....
In this multicenter, single-blinded, prospective randomized controlled trial, patients received bupivacaine or saline (placebo) immediately after MMS with flap reconstructions identified by American A...
One hundred seventy-four patients were included. Narcotic analgesic use was higher in the placebo group during the first 24 hours (odds ratio 2.18; confidence interval [CI]: 1.08-4.41; p = .03), secon...
Single-dose bupivacaine decreased postoperative pain and narcotic analgesic use after MMS with reconstructions likely to cause significant pain. Bupivacaine may have a role in postoperative pain manag...
As the misuse and abuse of medical narcotics are increasing in South Korea, an information system for the integrated information management of medical narcotic drugs across the nation is needed. This ...
As the NIMS enforces that all narcotics handlers digitally report all information on handling medical narcotic drugs, the functional requirements of the NIMS have been identified in accordance with th...
The NIMS encompasses all narcotic handlers, which comprise exporting, importing, and pharmaceutical companies; wholesalers; hospitals and clinics; and pharmacies, collecting over 120 million cases ann...
To the best of our knowledge, the NIMS is the world's first system to manage all information on the total life cycle of medical narcotics, including imports, production, distribution, use, and disposa...
Data on how surgeons perceive their habits of prescribing narcotics compared to their actual practice are scarce. This study examines the perception and actual narcotic prescribing habits of surgeons ...
Surgical residents, attendings, and advanced practice providers (APPs) were surveyed to assess their perceived prescribing habits at discharge for laparoscopic appendectomy and laparoscopic cholecyste...
Of the 52 participants, the majority were residents (57.7%). Approximately 90% of residents, 72% of attendings, and 18% of APPs reported regularly prescribing narcotics at discharge. Approximately 67%...
Most participants self-reported routinely prescribing narcotics at discharge. Although not the current recommendation, participants felt confident they were prescribing the correct regimen, but were o...
Much remains unknown about the dynamics of substitute behaviors during addiction recovery among persons attending recovery support groups. Insight into the nature, motives for, and course of substitut...
Twenty-three semi-structured in-depth interviews (n = 14 males and n = 9 females) were conducted with a convenience sample of Narcotics Anonymous attendees from a number of groups in the Western Cape,...
Thematic analysis yielded four themes: (i) substance-to-substance substitution; (ii) substance-to-behavior substitution; (iii) substitute behaviors and harm (reduction) and (iv) support needs to manag...
Self-monitoring, ongoing vigilance, and awareness of when substitutes become genuine addictions are critical for timely, suitable interventions....
Medical narcotics must be administered under medical supervision because of their potential for misuse and abuse, leading to more dangerous and addictive substances. The control of medical narcotics r...
Social network analysis (SNA) was applied to prescription networks for medical narcotics. Prescription data were obtained from the Narcotics Information Management System in South Korea, which contain...
The SNA identified hospitals that overprescribed medical narcotics. Patients suspected of experiencing narcotic addiction seek treatment in such hospitals. The structure of the network was different f...
The significance of this study lies in its analysis of nationwide narcotic use reports and the differences observed across different types of narcotics. The social network structure between hospitals ...
To mitigate the opioid crisis, physicians are reevaluating opioid prescribing patterns....
To evaluate outcomes of maximal opioid reduction on top of an existing Enhanced Recovery after Surgery (ERAS) pathway in our The Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement P...
Academic tertiary care hospital, United States....
Patients undergoing primary bariatric operation were studied from July 2017 to April 2019, (standard ERAS cohort), and compared to patients from April 2019 to February 2021 (standard ERAS with Sparing...
Of 367 patients, 212 (57.8%) and 155 (42.2%) were in the ERAS and SOUP cohorts, respectively. Roux-en-Y gastric bypass was 48.6% (n = 103) versus 54.2% (n = 84) and sleeve gastrectomy was 51.4% (n = 1...
An opioid-sparing protocol can be implemented after bariatric surgery with high overall satisfaction with pain control....
Describe factors that contribute to an increased narcotic medication use after robotic-assisted laparoscopic (RAL) surgery....
A retrospective cohort....
A teaching hospital....
All patients undergoing RAL surgery by gynecologist oncologists at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center over a 3-year period....
RAL by gynecologist oncologists....
Using retrospective chart review, patients who underwent RAL surgery from 2012 to 2015 in the division of gynecologic oncology were identified; 757 patients were eligible for inclusion in the study. T...
Age younger than 65 years seems to be a predictor for increased requirement of total morphine equivalent medication after RAL surgery, whereas patient-controlled analgesia use had a negative associati...
Patients undergoing primary palatoplasty rely on narcotics for pain control, but narcotics can lead to sedation and respiratory depression. Recent research into Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) ...
A single-center cohort study of patients undergoing primary palatoplasty was performed using 2 cohorts: a retrospective cohort treated with our institution's prior ERAS protocol from 2016 to 2018 and ...
A total of 85 patients (57 ERAS and 28 ERAS+K) were included. Compared with the ERAS group, the ERAS+K cohort had significantly decreased LOS (31.8 versus 55 h, P =0.02), decreased morphine milligram ...
This study illustrates many potential benefits of using ketorolac as a pain management adjunct in combination with a multimodal pain regimen. Our results demonstrated favorable outcomes, including dec...
