The European journal of surgery = Acta chirurgica
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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
Preoperative local infiltration with ropivacaine for postoperative pain relief after inguinal hernia repair. A randomised controlled trial.
To assess the effect of preoperative local anaesthesia with ropivacaine and find out if there was a dose-response relationship with postoperative pain after inguinal hernia repair. ⋯ Ropivacaine has a significant, dose-related pain-reducing effect in the immediate postoperative period but we could find no support for the theory that preoperative infiltration analgesia reduces long term pain.