Caudal clonidine for postoperative analgesia in adults

Clonidine premedication for postoperative analgesia in children.

BACKGROUND Postoperative pain remains a significant problem following paediatric surgery. Premedication with a suitable agent may improve its management. Clonidine is an alpha-2 adrenergic agonist which has sedative, anxiolytic and analgesic properties. It may therefore be a useful premedication for reducing postoperative pain in children. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the evidence for the effective...

Caudal tramadol for postoperative analgesia in pediatric hypospadias surgery.

Ninety boys, aged 13-53 months, undergoing repair of hypospadias, were allocated randomly to receive 0.8 ml kg-1 of one of three solutions into the caudal extradural space: group B received bupivacaine 2 mg kg-1, group T received tramadol 2 mg kg-1 in 0.9% saline and group BT a mixture of both. Postoperative pain was assessed hourly for 12 h after injection using a modified TPPPS pain score and...

Caudal tramadol for postoperative analgesia in hypospadias surgery.

Patient controlled analgesia versus conventional analgesia for postoperative pain

  Purpose: Patients may control postoperative pain by self-administration of intravenous opioids   using devices designed for this purpose (patient controlled analgesia or PCA). This study set out   to determine whether any of the two opioid administrations (i.e. PCA or conventional analgesia)   would provide superior pain relief among patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy   or not. ...

Patient controlled analgesia versus conventional analgesia for postoperative pain

  Purpose: Patients may control postoperative pain by self-administration of intravenous opioids   using devices designed for this purpose (patient controlled analgesia or PCA). This study set out   to determine whether any of the two opioid administrations (i.e. PCA or conventional analgesia)   would provide superior pain relief among patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy   or not. ...