Why let the patient control their own pain?
Pain treatment as a symptom of multiple illnesses has been increasingly important over recent decades. Pain Units are no longer uncommon in most large hospitals (and those that are no so large). Similarly, Palliative Care in patients with very advanced or irreversible...
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Comparison between conventional epidural analgesia and PIEB
The introduction of epidural analgesia to delivery rooms meant a fundamental advance at a moment of a woman’s life that can be both traumatic and happy at the same time. Today the epidural analgesia is used in all hospital delivery rooms, at least in more developed...
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New applications of hyperbaric medicine
Hyperbaric medicine (also called hyperbaric oxygen therapy or HBOT) is a growing branch of medicine based on the use of hyperbaric chambers in which the patient breathes pure oxygen or compressed air at above atmospheric pressure(generally between 2 and 3 absolute...
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Infusing noradrenaline and other inotropes in ICU
Inotropes have an immediate effect on cardiac contractility and the peripheral blood vessels. They are therefore called vasoactive drugs. Some are vasoconstrictive, such as noradrenaline, others are vasodilators, such as dobutamine, and others may have one effect or...
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Intravenous infusion of cytostatic drugs and other chemotherapy agents
Cytostatic drugs constitute the cornerstone of chemotherapy treatment in the vast majority of oncology patients. These treatments are structured in chemotherapy cycles which usually combine different drugs, depending on the type of cancer being treated and its stage...
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Infusion Pumps in the Operating Room: Versatility and Safety Are Key
The most common function of intravenous infusion pumps in the operating room is for the administration of anaesthesia. The anaesthetist can opt for inhaled anaesthesia, a combination of inhaled and intravenous anaesthesia in the different phases of the process, or...
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How can arcomed help to reduce costs in a hospital?
Reducing costs in a hospital is a long term plan in which all departments are involved. The quality of patient care, the availability of new drugs and treatments, the pressure to attend to emergencies and the incorporation of new technology in diagnosis and...
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Tocolytic boluses and controlling the threat of preterm birth
Tocolytic drugs are a category of medications used to suppress uterine contractions that could trigger premature labor. The appearance of contractions in the uterus before the end of pregnancy is always a medical emergency that must be immediately treated in a...
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Advances in pain management: Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA)
Pain has always been inherent in many pathologies, to the point that in many cases it is the only symptom that causes the patient to seek health care. Medicine's approach to pain has changed over time: from the inevitability of pain to today's idea that acute or...
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DEHP free consumables. Why is this important?
Di (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate or DEHP is a synthetic chemical belonging to a family known as phthalates, which is used to make plastics more flexible. One of these plastics, polyvinyl chloride or PVC, is widely used in medical applications: IV infusion medication bags,...
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