noun
definition
The inability to feel pain
example
epidural analgesia
definition
Medication that acts to relieve pain
example
She was able to take analgesia orally.
Examples of analgesia in a Sentence
This is done by teaching the patient how to produce analgesia in their hand.
Digital nerve blockade is simple and easy to perform and provides useful analgesia for a variety of minor surgical procedures.
Regional anesthesia is a good way of achieving analgesia in surgical neonates.
Driving ability in cancer patients receiving long-term morphine analgesia.
We need to provide optimal analgesia for these simple operations.
In women with patient controlled epidural analgesia only 69% did not need a top up.
In addition the epidural may be used for postoperative analgesia.
Furthermore, the epidural catheter can be used for post-operative analgesia.
Here we are however, thinking about a diagnostic test - will this challenge dose of opioid produce analgesia or won't it?
Despite the benefits of pre-emptive analgesia, it is not always appropriate to use it.
It also emphasizes the need for stronger regular analgesia in severe pain, with a step-down in analgesia in severe pain, with a step-down in analgesia as the acute pain resolves.
He had taken analgesia and anti-inflammatory medication without any great success.
The reasons were either rapid delivery, analgesia refused, randomisation error or received meperidine (pethidine) or epidural respectively.
Patient-controlled analgesia update Clinical bottom line Patient-controlled analgesia with opioid produces modest improvement in pain relief compared to the same opioid given conventionally.
I am trained in I.V. sedation and relative analgesia, and have developed an interest in fixed orthodontics.
Maternal pyrexia associated with the use of epidural analgesia in labor.
Good analgesia reduces the level of circulating catecholamines and avoids the vasoconstrictor response to pain.
She recorded the reluctance of the SHO to see the patient but he eventually did turn up and prescribed the analgesia as already noted.
Patients with progressive bone disease often require opiate analgesia.