Anticonvulsants

Waldman, Steven D.; Waldman, Corey W.

doi:10.1016/b978-1-4377-0721-2.00124-0

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“…Pain is a subjective sense expressed by the patients and cannot be effortlessly measured by the clinicians ( 1 ). Available physiologic markers cannot reliably assess the pain severity, as well ( 2 ).…”

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Does Changes in the Electrical Resistance of an Acupuncture Meridian Predict Pain Intensity Following Orthopedic Surgery?

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BackgroundSeveral methods for assessment of severity of pain have been proposed but all of them are subjective.ObjectivesThis study evaluated the association concerning changes in electrical resistance (ER) between two acupuncture points and severity of postoperative pain in order to define an objective measurement of pain.Patients and MethodsIn a cross-sectional study, 50 patients undergoing lower extremity orthopedic surgery with postoperative moderate to severe pain (VAS > 4,) were consecutively enrolled. In the recovery room, the patients' pain scores were assessed and in patients with VAS > 4, the electrical resistance between Li4 and Li11 acupuncture points as well as pain scores was measured prior and following analgesic administration.ResultsFollowing meperidine use, the mean VAS significantly decreased and the ER between the two acupoints was significantly increased. However, Pearson correlation analysis did not reveal any association between the trends of pain intensity and ER (P > 0.05). The ER change in patients operated under epidural anesthesia was significantly less than those who experienced general or spinal anesthesia.ConclusionsThere is a coincidence of pain relief and change in the ER of acupuncture meridians without significant association. The diagnostic value of ER for pain, stress response or any other physiologic outcome needs to be investigated in clinical trials with a well-defined control group, with more accurate instruments and probably in different acupuncture meridians.

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Does Changes in the Electrical Resistance of an Acupuncture Meridian Predict Pain Intensity Following Orthopedic Surgery?

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“…It passes superiorly along the posterior border of the sternocleidomastoid muscle, dividing into cutaneous branches that innervate the lateral portion of the posterior scalp. 29 The LON is localised by identifying a point two-thirds of the way between the inion and the mastoid process (figure 2). It is commonly injected along with the GON.…”

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“…It emerges below the obliquus capitis inferior muscle and passes through the semispinalis muscle, before ascending to innervate the posterior scalp to the vertex. 29 The GON can be localised superficially by identifying a point one-third (medially) of the way between the occipital protuberance (inion) and the mastoid process, approximately 2 cm lateral and 1.5–2.0 cm below the inion (figure 2). The occipital artery usually runs lateral to the GON, and this should be considered when injecting the nerve.…”

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“…The supratrochlear nerve exits the orbital cavity anteriorly and ascends the forehead to innervate the upper eyelid, forehead and anterior scalp. 29 It is located superficially at the superomedial aspect of the supraorbital ridge, which is the injection site (figure 2).…”

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“…Its superficial branches innervate the tragus and the auricle of the ear; its proximal trunk is located superficially just anterior to the tragus (figure 2). 29…”

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Headache is a common neurological referral and a frequent cause for acute hospital admissions. Despite peripheral nerve blocks being widely used in headache and pain services to treat patients with headache disorders, there is no readily accessible resource with instructions for the delivery of peripheral nerve blocks. Here we provide a practical approach for administering peripheral nerve blocks and cover the current evidence base for such procedures in different headache disorders. We provide instructions and an audiovisual guide for administering greater and lesser occipital, supratrochlear, supraorbital and auriculotemporal nerves blocks, and give information on their adverse effects and potential complications. This information will provide a reference for headache practitioners when giving peripheral nerve blocks safely to people with headache.

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Direct detection of gravitational waves by pulsar timing arrays will become feasible over the next few years. In the low frequency regime (10 −7 Hz -10 −9 Hz), we expect that a superposition of gravitational waves from many sources will manifest itself as an isotropic stochastic gravitational wave background. Currently, a number of techniques exist to detect such a signal; however, many detection methods are computationally challenging.Here we introduce an approximation to the full likelihood function for a pulsar timing array that results in computational savings proportional to the square of the number of pulsars in the array. Through a series of simulations we show that the approximate likelihood function reproduces results obtained from the full likelihood function. We further show, both analytically and through simulations, that, on average, this approximate likelihood function gives unbiased parameter estimates for astrophysically realistic stochastic background amplitudes.

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Anticonvulsants

Cited by 4 publications

References 15 publications

Does Changes in the Electrical Resistance of an Acupuncture Meridian Predict Pain Intensity Following Orthopedic Surgery?

Does Changes in the Electrical Resistance of an Acupuncture Meridian Predict Pain Intensity Following Orthopedic Surgery?

Peripheral nerve blocks for headache disorders

An Efficient Approximation to the Likelihood for Gravitational Wave Stochastic Background Detection Using Pulsar Timing Data

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