Abstract:BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Pain evaluation and the choice of the analgesic best providing its control are extremely important for patients' quality of life. This study aimed at describing the characteristics which make meperidine unfeasible for pain management, at calling the attention to the incidence of its prescriptions and to the need of a multidisciplinary educative action aiming at decreasing its use, in addition to presenting two opioids as options for analgesia. CONTENTS: National or international scie… Show more
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