Articles: pain-management.
-
Historical Article
[The place of regional anesthesia in modern anesthesiology].
-
Regional-Anaesthesie · Jul 1982
[Experiences with a method of continuous brachial plexus blockade following melanoma perfusion of an upper extremity].
A method of continuous brachial plexus blockade by an epidural catheter is reported. This kind of postoperative analgesia was applied to 10 patients over a period of 2-3 days after hyperthermic melanoma perfusion of the upper extremities. A sufficient analgetic effect was obtained by intermittent injection of local anesthetics.
-
Twenty five adults and children with fractured shaft of femur were given femoral nerve block for pain relief. The block was found to be useful for purposes of transportation and immobilization. The pain relief was complete if the fracture site was in the middle third of the femoral shaft. The block is easy, safe, economical and most useful in emergency and poor risk patients.
-
Langenbecks Arch Chir · Jan 1982
[Catheter epidural analgesia for treatment of postoperative and post-traumatic pain].
Postoperative epidural local anesthetics or opiates provide excellent analgesia but do not reduce the incidence of respiratory complications compared with systemic analgesics. Additional and sometimes lethal side effects reserve the routine use of epidural analgesia for highly selected patients. ⋯ TEA results in fewer pulmonary complications, shorter hospital stay, and lower mortality than artificial respiration. Late global pulmonary tests after TEA for treatment of SRF show normal results within comparable groups without rib fractures.