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Great info guys, thanks! I am glad to hear that some have heard of this system. So curious, those of you that have had experience where the patient is in controll of there oral pain med, would you prefer this system over nurse administration?

Thank you all for the responses. I know that this sounds strange, it did to me as well, but I read that there were clinical trials being done in the nursing journal Nursing 2004 and a clinical trial done in Toronto in July 2005. In the trials they were actually using Vicoden! The Vicoden was placed in a wrist pouch and in both articles found the patient controlled group obtained their pain goal better and faster than with the nurse controlled group. I was just interested in this and was wondering if anyone had encountered or heard of anything actually being practiced. Thank you again:).

Hello everyone! I am new here and have enjoyed the postings- a lot of good info:). I was reading an article on how they are experimenting with patient controlled analgesic mostly after ortho surgeries like total knees. Instead of the nurse being paged and then administering the med, the patient is given one dose in sack and is to document their pain level and page the nurse after taking the med. The nurse documents and then refills the med. Has anyone had any expereince with this or heard of it being done? Thanks!