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Uncategorized Published - 14 November, 2025    By - Dr Clemens
Time to Reconsider Tramadol for Chronic Pain?

Author: Carla Cantor Medscape BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine. Tramadol, a commonly prescribed opioid often viewed as a safer option for chronic pain, provided limited pain relief while increasing the risk for serious side effects, results of a new analysis showed. In a systematic review and meta-analysis, investigators found that tramadol offered clinically insignificant pain relief, while […]

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Uncategorized Published - 14 November, 2025    By - Dr Clemens
Intraoperative Cardiac Events in Pediatric Patients with Congenital Heart Disease Undergoing Noncardiac Procedures

Authors: Nasr, Viviane G. et al. Anesthesiology October 2025 | DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000005783 This multicenter registry study characterized the incidence and predictors of intraoperative cardiac events in pediatric patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) undergoing noncardiac procedures. While previous studies focused primarily on mortality, this analysis—drawing from seven U.S. centers—specifically examined real-time intraoperative hemodynamic and cardiac […]

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Uncategorized Published - 14 November, 2025    By - Dr Clemens
Minimal clinically important changes of patient-reported outcome measures for acute post-surgical pain

Authors: Vollert, Jan et al. Anesthesiology October 2025 | DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000005792 This large multicenter European study established reference values for the minimal clinically important difference (MCID) in postoperative pain and physical function using patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs). The MCID defines the smallest change in a score that patients perceive as meaningful—crucial for interpreting clinical trial […]

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Uncategorized Published - 14 November, 2025    By - Dr Clemens
Brain Retraining Yields Lasting Relief of Chronic Back Pain

Author: Megan Brooks Medscape  JAMA Psychiatry. Psychological therapy that changes an individual’s beliefs about pain can provide lasting relief for chronic back pain (CBP), long-term follow-up results of a randomized controlled trial showed. More than half of those who received the brain-focused pain reprocessing therapy (PRT) reported being nearly or completely pain-free 5 years later, […]

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Uncategorized Published - 14 November, 2025    By - Dr Clemens
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