Ethical Issues Confronting Muslim Patients in Perioperative and Critical Care Environments: A Survey of Islamic Jurisprudence.

Ethical dilemmas may arise when medical management conflicts with a patient's values, culture, religion, or legal considerations. Many Muslims encounter ethical dilemmas as patients in perioperative and critical care settings. This article discusses the fundamentals of Islamic jurisprudence and how this may affect hospitalized patients in terms of cleanliness and prayer in the setting of stoma and urinary catheters, fasting, transfusion, transplants, xenografts and animal-based medications, do-not-resuscitate orders, and postmortem examinations.

Intravenous Amide Anesthetics to Treat Pain Associated with Renal Colic in the Emergency Department: a Systematic Review.

Introduction: Renal colic affects 12% of the U.S. population, accounting for nearly 1% of emergency department (ED) visits.

Neuroleptanalgesia for acute abdominal pain: a systematic review.

Background: Acute abdominal pain (AAP) comprises up to 10% of all emergency department (ED) visits. Current pain management practice is moving toward multi-modal analgesia regimens that decrease opioid use.

Objective: This project sought to determine whether, in patients with AAP (population), does administration of butyrophenone antipsychotics (intervention) compared to placebo, usual care, or opiates alone (comparisons) improve analgesia or decrease opiate consumption (outcomes)?

Methods: A structured search was performed in Cochrane CENTRAL, CINAHL, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, Directory of Open Access Journals, Embase, IEEE-Xplorer, Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature, Magiran, PubMed, Scientific Information Database, Scopus, TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM, and Web of Science.