PCA uses a computerized pump, which is controlled by the patient through a hand-held button that is connected to the machine. The pump usually delivers medications in small regular doses.
Analgesia is the medical term meaning absence of pain.
The absence of the sense of pain while remaining conscious.
Preemptive analgesia introduces anesthetic drugs near the spinal cord or, sometimes, in nerve blocks in specific regions of the body
Patient Controlled Analgesia
Level 1, Minimal Sedation
no, it is anesthesia that is the condition of no nervous sensation.
Releiving of pain by endorphins which circulate in blood during stress
mu, kappa, and delta receptors!
Mario Incayawar has written: 'Culture, brain, and analgesia' -- subject(s): Cultural Diversity, Ethnology, Pain, Methods, Pain Management, Analgesics, Analgesia, Cultural Competency, Therapeutic use
Michael Kost has written: 'Moderate Sedation/Analgesia'
Regional analgesia is the application of an analgesic to a region to achieve (analgesia) pain relief). Regional anaesthesia is the application of an anaesthetic to achieve anaesthesia (loss of sensation). Both are absorbed by the nerves in that region which dull pain/cause loss of sensation respectively.
Pang. L. Man has written: 'Handbook of acupuncture analgesia'