Relationship between pain and opioid analgesics on the development of delirium following hip fracture.
By R. Morrison, J. Magaziner, M. Gilbert, K. Koval, M. McLaughlin, G. Orosz, E. Strauss, A. Siu. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences, 2003
739 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Surgery
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/9b0d8a9312251ed9c8f11b868c88a0d3142bc65a
How researchers see this paper
The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.
In Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
In Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine
Citations in the corpus
- Delirium as a predictor of mortality in mechanically ventilated patients in the intensive care unit. (2004, background): “Numerous risk factors for delirium have been identified, including preexisting cognitive impairment; advanced age; use of psychoactive drugs; mechanical ventilation; untreated pain; and a variety of medical conditions such as heart failure, prolonged immobilization, abnormal blood pressure, anemia, ”
- Predictors of Cognitive Dysfunction after Major Noncardiac Surgery (2008, background): “Alternatively, patients still receiving opioids at hospital discharge may have been experiencing significant pain that would also detract from their test performance.(25,26) Our study is one of the few investigations of postoperative cognitive function that includes younger patients.”
- Sedation in the intensive care setting (2012, positive): “Insufficient pain relief can contribute to increased stress response, deficient sleep, disorientation, anxiety, delirium, and PTSD.2,6,7 Unfortunately, pain is often undertreated secondary to concerns about the adverse effects of medications (eg, respiratory depression and hemodynamic compromise), a”