Traci Dantoni

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In a study evaluating combination morphine/oxycodone, researchers found the drug to produce less oxygen desaturation in patients with acute postoperative pain than either single component alone when administered in equianalgesic doses. The results of the randomized, double-blind study were presented at the 2012 American Academy of Pain Medicine Annual Meeting.

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Chronic opioid intake of ≥90 days may be associated with fewer perioperative infections; however, surgical technique and operating room environment — glucose, temperature, and hypoxia — “may play a larger role than opioid consumption in the occurrence of surgical site infection,” found a retrospective review of patients undergoing colectomy and lumbar spinal surgery presented during the 2012 American Academy of Pain Medicine Annual Meeting.

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An analysis of the safety of duloxetine with concomitant nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) use found increased bleeding events in patients compared with nonusers of NSAIDs, investigators reported during the 2012 American Academy of Pain Medicine Annual Meeting.

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A multicenter, Phase 2 continuation trial has shown that the positive overall response rate (ORR) seen in a Phase 1 trial evaluating lenalidomide + azacitidine combination therapy is substantiated, with good overall survival (OS), even among progressing patients, in a higher-risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) population. The study was presented at the 53rd American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting and Exposition.