J Addict Med
February 2023
Background: Medication for opioid use disorder (OUD) with methadone or buprenorphine/naloxone is recommended for pregnant women with OUD. Traditional buprenorphine/naloxone induction requires patients to be in moderate withdrawal before the first dose of medication to minimize the chances of precipitated withdrawal. The low-dose buprenorphine "microinduction" (Bernese) method was described in 2016 and involves giving small doses of buprenorphine to patients for whom opioid withdrawal was not desirable.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Adolescents with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) frequently experience interference with everyday activities. Mind-body approaches such as yoga have been recommended as interventions for patients with IBS. Despite promising results among adult samples, there have been limited studies exploring the efficacy of yoga with pediatric patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Faces scales are commonly used to obtain self-reports of pain intensity from children. Previous research using hypothetical vignettes and pain following venepuncture has found differences in children's pain ratings as a function of the type of faces scale used. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether scales beginning with a smiling rather than neutral "no pain" face would produce higher ratings in the assessment of postoperative pain intensity in children and to compare ratings using different faces scales to those reported with an additional independent measure of pain intensity.
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