Sex differences in prehospital analgesia in patients presenting with acute coronary syndromes and their association with clinical outcomes.
Emilia Nan TieHimawan FernandoZiad NehmeDiem DinhEmily AndrewAngela BrennanSarah ZamanDanny LiewMichael StephensonJeffrey LefkovitsKarlheinz PeterStephen J DuffyJames A ShawKaren SmithDion StubPublished in: Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions (2022)
Female patients undergoing PCI received less opioid analgesia, but no sex differences in prehospital pain scores were seen. Opioid administration was associated with impaired antegrade flow in the culprit artery in both sexes, but not short-term MACE. Trials evaluating nonopioid analgesics in ACS are needed.
Keyphrases
- pain management
- acute coronary syndrome
- chronic pain
- cardiac arrest
- patients undergoing
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- antiplatelet therapy
- trauma patients
- emergency medical
- postoperative pain
- acute myocardial infarction
- st segment elevation myocardial infarction
- st elevation myocardial infarction
- coronary artery disease
- ultrasound guided
- coronary artery bypass grafting
- spinal cord injury
- neuropathic pain
- spinal cord