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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
[Effect of indomethacin as an adjunct to postoperative pain relief by continuous epidural infusion of bupivacaine and buprenorphine].
- Y Hirabayashi, H Mitsuhata, R Shimizu, K Hotta, Y Horiguchi, J Saitoh, K Saitoh, and H Fukuda.
- Department of Anesthesiology, Jichi Medical School, Tochigi.
- Masui. 1994 Oct 1; 43 (10): 1598-601.
AbstractWe examined the analgesic effects of indomethacin as an adjunct to postoperative epidural analgesia in 40 patients who underwent upper abdominal surgery. Twenty patients in control group were epidurally given 0.1 mg of buprenorphine in 8 ml of 0.25% bupivacaine immediately after surgery and subsequently infused 15 micrograms buprenorphine in 1 ml of 0.25% bupivacaine at a rate of 1 ml.h-1 for 48 h. The remaining 20 patients were rectally given 50 mg of indomethacin in addition to the same epidural method described above. The patients who did not need additional narcotics in the control and indomethacin groups were 45% and 80%, respectively (P < 0.05). In upper abdominal surgery, postoperative pain relief by epidural buprenorphine and bupivacaine plus rectal indomethacin was more effective than that by epidural buprenorphine and bupivacaine.
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