• Anaesthesia · May 1995

    Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial

    Analgesia following day-case knee arthroscopy--the effect of piroxicam with or without bupivacaine infiltration.

    • B C Morrow, K R Milligan, and B V Murthy.
    • Department of Anaesthetics, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
    • Anaesthesia. 1995 May 1;50(5):461-3.

    AbstractSixty patients presenting for day-case arthroscopy of the knee under general anaesthesia were studied. Patients were randomly allocated to receive, in addition to intramuscular piroxicam 20 mg, either bupivacaine 0.25% 20 ml applied locally to the knee at the end of the procedure (n = 30) or no further intra-operative analgesia (n = 30). Visual analogue pain scores were significantly lower at 1, 2 and 4 h postoperatively in the bupivacaine group (p < 0.05). A higher proportion of patients in the piroxicam-only group required supplemental analgesia before discharge from hospital. The combination of piroxicam and bupivacaine provided superior analgesia to piroxicam alone.

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