Perioperative (es)ketamine significantly reduces POD risk but not POND. Subgroup analyses reveal esketamine excels in delirium prevention, while racemic ketamine shows better cognitive protection.
Indians have a high prevalence of chronic pain (19.3% among men and 25.2% among women).[1] Mindfulness-based therapies modulate the cognitive, emotional, and behavioural factors related to chronic pain. Mindfulness was introduced into pain practice by Kabat-Zinn in the West and has been helping patients cope with chronic pain for more than four decades.[2] It has secured a place in American...
Summary Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is challenging to treat with its significant psychological and cognitive behavioural element involved. Mindfulness meditation helps alter the behavioural response in chronic pain situations. Significant body of research in the filed of mindfulness meditation comes from the work of Dr Kabat-Zinn. The current evidence in the field, though not grade one, shows...