Òscar Miró, Gina I Osorio, Aitor Alquézar-Arbé, Sira Aguiló, Cesáreo Fernández, Guillermo Burillo, Javier Jacob, F Javier Montero-Pérez, E Jorge García-Lamberechts, Pascual Piñera, Celia Rodríguez Valles, Elena Carrasco Fernández, Laura Molina, Esther Ruescas, Fátima Fernández Salgado, Amparo Fernández-Simón Almela, María Ángeles de Juan Gómez, Sandra Guiu Martí, Nieves López-Laguna, Jacinto García Acosta, María Teresa Maza Vera, Ángel García García, Patxi Ezponda, Andrea Martínez Lorenzo, Juan Vicente Ortega Liarte, Susana Sánchez Ramón, Jesús Ruiz Ramos, Juan González Del Castillo
BACKGROUND: Treatment of acute pain in older patients is a common challenge faced in emergency departments (EDs). Despite many studies that have investigated chronic analgesic use in the elderly, data on patterns of acute use, especially in EDs, of analgesics according to patient characteristics is scarce. OBJECTIVE: To investigate sex- and age-related patterns of analgesic use in the Spanish EDs and determine differences in age-related patterns according to patient sex...
October 4, 2023: European Journal of Emergency Medicine: Official Journal of the European Society for Emergency Medicine