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ArticleRegional anesthesia and pain medicine2020

NSAIDs for analgesia in the era of COVID-19.

Daniel L Herzberg, Harry P Sukumaran, Eugene Viscusi

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Article in Regional anesthesia and pain medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Daniel L HerzbergDepartment of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Detroit Medical Center/Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA dherzber@dmc.org.ORCID 0000-0001-7718-0052
Harry P SukumaranDepartment of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Detroit Medical Center/Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Eugene ViscusiDepartment of Anesthesiology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0260-4396
Georgetown University · USThomas Jefferson University · USWayne State University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Globally, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are highly used to treat pain. With the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic, the safety of NSAIDs use has been called into question. These concerns are worthy of review. At present, there is no compelling data showing that NSAIDs worsen the severity of COVID-19 symptoms or increase one's likelihood of contracting the illness. For patients in pain and without symptoms that could potentially be attributed to COVID-19 (cough, fevers/chills, lethargy, myalgias, anosmia and so on), NSAIDs should continue to remain a viable option to provide analgesia to patients in need.

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AnalgesiaCoronavirus InfectionsDiabetes MellitusHypertensionInfectionsPandemicsPneumonia, ViralAnti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-SteroidalBetacoronavirusCOVID-19HumansPainSARS-CoV-2Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidalacute painanalgesiachronic painpain managementpharmacology

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PMID32499385
PMCPMC7476293
OpenAlexW3033623160

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