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+44 28 3718 0055Analgesia & Resuscitation : Current ResearchISSN: 2324-903X
Xiulu Ruan Author
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Anaesthesia
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, USA.
Biography
Xiulu Ruan, MD, a fellowship trained, multi-boarded pain management specialist, has achieved 8 medical board/subspecialty board certifications in the United States - setting the world record for the Most medical board certifications, according to the World Records Academy. He attended the Shandong Medical University (formerly Medical School of QiLu University), from 1982 to 1988. He came to US in 1989, attended graduate school at LSU, Baton Rouge and received his Master of Natural Sciences in 1993.
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Peripheral Edema due to Neuraxial Opioid Infusion: Still an Underrecognized Predicament
Author(s): Xiulu Ruan
Peripheral Edema due to Neuraxial Opioid Infusion: Still an Underrecognized Predicament
The discovery of opioid receptor in the spinal cord in the 1970s opened the door for spinally mediated analgesia. The demonstration of profound analgesia by intrathecal opioid leads to the current popular utilization of the intrathecal opioid delivery pump to treat varieties of intractable painful conditions that have not responded to conventional treatment. The introduction of intrathecal opioid infusion marks one of the most important breakthroughs in pain management in the past decades. The main advantage of intrathecal opioid is that it produces profound analgesia in doses much smal... view more»
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