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Example sentences for: opioids

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Opioids have common and uncommon adverse effects (Table 3).
Sedation in the terminal or final stages of life can be defined as the use of sedative drugs (usually benzodiazepines with or without complementary opioids given by the intravenous or by the subcutaneous route) to reduce the level of consciousness sufficiently deep to provide comfort for the patient until death occurs.
Clinical trials in acute pain normally last four to six hours, because that is the duration of effect for most analgesics, whether injected or as tablets, and for simple analgesics, NSAIDs or opioids.
While a trial of opioids may be beneficial in the unconscious patient who is difficult to assess, physicians must remember that opioids may accumulate and add to delirium when renal clearance is poor [ 91 92 ] . If the trial of increased opioids does not relieve the agitation, or makes the delirium worse by increasing agitation or precipitating myoclonic jerks or seizures (rare), then pursue alternate therapies directed at suppressing the symptoms associated with delirium.
A sidebar profiles a pain doctor who lost his license for prescribing lots of opioids.