Articles: analgesia.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
Epidural ketamine reduces post-operative epidural PCA consumption of fentanyl/bupivacaine.
To study the analgesic effect of epidural ketamine on postoperative pain and epidural PCA consumption after total abdominal hysterectomy. ⋯ Epidural ketamine 30 mg reduces post hysterectomy pain as evidenced by prolongation of time to first analgesia request and reduction in postoperative epidural PCA consumption. This effect is manifest whether ketamine is given before induction or 20 min after skin incision.
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To analyze the effects of epidural analgesia for labor when dystocia occurs. ⋯ Epidural analgesia appears to be a marker of abnormal labor rather than a cause of dystocia. High concentration anesthetics and epinephrine should be avoided, as they may influence labor. Randomized, controlled trials of this technique will be difficult to do; our work should reassure patients and their clinicians that epidural analgesia does not adversely affect labor.
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To report the successful perioperative anaesthetic and analgesic management of a spinal trauma patient with a surgically placed epidural catheter. ⋯ A surgically placed epidural catheter provided excellent, safe, perioperative anaesthesia and analgesia in this patient with unstable spinal trauma.
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We retrospectively examined the effects of epidural analgesia on patients undergoing radical retropubic prostatectomy (RRP). ⋯ Epidural anesthesia and analgesia following radical retropubic prostatectomy have demonstrated a number of beneficial effects. These include decreased blood loss and shorter hospital stay.