Aǧrı : Ağrı (Algoloji) Derneği'nin Yayın organıdır = The journal of the Turkish Society of Algology
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Case Reports
Sympathetic radiofrequency neurolysis for unilateral lumbar hyperhidrosis: a case report.
Patients with hyperhidrosis suffer from physical, social and mental discomfort which often cannot be treated sufficiently using conservative measures. A new percutaneous approach to sympathectomy using radiofrequency denervation has seemed to offer longer duration of action and less incidence of post sympathetic neuralgia. This article reports the authors' experience with sympathetic RF neurolysis in a 35 year old male with right unilateral lumbar hyperhidrosis. ⋯ Hyperhidrosis was relieved after the procedure and there were no postsympathectomy neuralgia and sexual dysfunction. The patient obtained improvement of lumbar hyperhidrosis at his first month of follow- up and was satisfied with the outcome. In conclusion, RF neurolysis of lumbar sympathetic ganglions is a safe and effective palliative procedure with minimal invasiveness for relieving excessive sweat secretion in patients with localized hyperhidrosis.
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The study was conducted at Sahinbey Research and Intervention Hospital in order to define the interventions of health staff who were in charge of patient pain care. Those who had been an employee already between February- April 2007 were enrolled in the study. ⋯ In addition, the bullet-in questions of the scale revealed that the participants scored highest for knowledge management, followed by pain evaluation, and the least for the maintenance of physical comfort. The results of the study imply that standardization of education is mandatory to decrease individual differences due to educational status, and that more consideration should be given to pain and pain relief topics in schools providing health education.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
The efficacy of preemptive ketamine and ropivacaine in pediatric patients: a placebo controlled, double-blind.
We have evaluated and compared the preemptive efficacy of intravenous ketamine with placebo and caudal ropivacaine in pediatric patients going under elective hernia repair. ⋯ Caudal application of ropivacaine in appropriate doses provides satisfactory peroperative and postoperative analgesia with no side effects in pediatric patient group going under elective hernia repair where as ketamine with the applied doses has no preemptive effect.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
[Does iv paracetamol have preemptive analgesic effect on lumber disc surgeries?].
In this study, postoperative analgesic effects of intravenous paracetamol administration in lumbar discectomy patients were evaluated. After the approval of ethic committee, 90 patients undergoing lumbar disc hernia operation randomly divided into 3 groups. After standart general anesthesia, patients in group I received 1 gr i.v. paracetamol infusion 15 minutes before the induction, patients in group II received i.v. ⋯ First analgesic requirement time, total morphine consumption and side effects were recorded. In group I and II, VAS scores, 24 h morphine consumption and first morphine requirement times were significantly different comparing to group III. As a result, we think that in lumbar discectomy cases preoperative administration of 1 gr paracetamol has no preemptive analgesic effect.
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Cancer pain management is still reported to be inadequate despite of recent developments in medicine, resulting in serious outcomes. This study is to evaluate opinions, knowledge and attitudes of doctors working and/or being trainedg in surgical and medical departments in our university hospital, towards cancer pain management via a questionnaire. Of all doctors approached, eighty percent could be reached and 83% of them completed the questionnaire. ⋯ The results of this survey suggest specific targets for the strategic and educational projects to overcome some of the barriers against the optimal cancer pain management. Most of the doctors believe that barriers originating from health professionals and systems are more important than the ones resulting from patients and give high priority to treatment of cancer pain relative to the treatment of cancer; but still half of them report that legal regulations have some influence on opioid prescription; and almost three quarters of them believe that opioid use may cause high rates of psychological addiction or abuse. Two thirds of the doctors feel themselves "insufficient" in cancer pain management, being more prominent in tasks requiring knowledge, skill, education and experience about opioid use.