Articles: postoperative-pain.
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Anaesth Intensive Care · May 1990
Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study Clinical Trial Controlled Clinical TrialComparison of two methods of intravenous administration of morphine for postoperative pain relief.
Morphine sulphate was used for the control of pain following major abdominal surgery for a period of three days either as patient-controlled or continuous infusion. The two groups of patients were comparable with regard to patient and operation details, duration of infusion, pain scores and complications. ⋯ It is suggested that a properly supervised continuous infusion of morphine is as good as patient-controlled administration. There was a negative correlation between the age of the patient and the dose of morphine used.
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Comparative Study
Postoperative analgesia in children who have genito-urinary surgery. A comparison between caudal buprenorphine and bupivacaine.
A study conducted on 40 children, aged 1-11 years, who had genito-urinary surgery compared the quality and duration of analgesia after caudal blocks in two groups of patients. Group 1 (n = 20) received caudal bupivacaine 0.25% and group 2 (n = 20) caudal buprenorphine 4 micrograms/kg; each received 0.5 ml/kg body weight. Patients were operated on under general anaesthesia. ⋯ The results indicate that caudal buprenorphine provides excellent postoperative analgesia in children comparable to caudal bupivacaine in the early postoperative period. Buprenorphine proved better in the late postoperative period. Analgesia lasted from 20 hours to more than 24 hours after caudal buprenorphine with fewer side effects.
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Thirty infants scheduled for a variety of gastrointestinal, genitourinary and thoracic surgical procedures were selected for insertion of lumbar or thoracic epidural catheters via the caudal approach using either an Intracath or a Burron continuous brachial plexus kit. The catheters were inserted with ease by residents in training and no catheter-related complications were encountered. Lidocaine 0.5 per cent with 1:200,000 epinephrine was then injected to assure proper placement of the catheter before narcotics were administered. ⋯ Urinary retention occurred in two infants and one infant became apnoeic three hours after epidural morphine administration but responded to naloxone and pulmonary ventilation with bag and mask. In conclusion, epidural catheters placed via the caudal approach are a safe and effective means of providing postoperative pain control in infants using preservative-free morphine. However, the use of epidural narcotics in infants less than two years of age is restricted to those who will receive intensive care unit monitoring postoperatively so that if apnoea occurs, rapid intervention can be taken by skilled nursing personnel.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study Clinical Trial
The effect of diclofenac and nefopam on postoperative dental pain.
Eighty-two outpatients who received general anaesthesia for surgical removal of maxillary or mandibular third molars were given either diclofenac 75 mg or nefopam 20 mg intramuscularly for postoperative pain control. They and the control group were also allowed oral paracetamol as required. The results showed that there was no significant pain relief from these single intramuscular injections.