Compartment Syndrome Obscured by Post-Operative Epidural Analgesia

Compartment syndrome obscured by post-operative epidural analgesia

Compartment syndrome is an orthopedic emergency that require early recognition and urgent intervention to avoid catastrophic complications. High index of suspicion is required for early diagnosis based on a constellation of signs and symptoms that include pain out of proportion and worsened by passive stretching, altered sensorium and palpable tenseness. Any event thus, that masks pain, may lea...

Quality of post-operative analgesia after epidural dexmedetomidine and ketamine: A comparative pilot study

Hip fractures are intensely painful, so post‐operative analgesia is an integral part of patient care for early rehabilitation and mobility.[1] Local anaesthetics with epidural additives ideally should provide stable haemodynamics and prolonged analgesia. There is limited literature comparing dexmedetomidine and ketamine as epidural additives. We conducted a study of continuous epidural infusion...

Novel concepts of analgesia for post operative pain: Multimodal analgesia

Epidural morphine and post-operative pain relief.

Epidural morphine was compared with placebo in two randomly selected but similar groups of patients undergoing upper abdominal operations. There was no quantitative or qualitative difference in the analgesia obtained in the two groups of patients but there were significantly diminished long term requirements of intramuscular morphine in those who had been previously given epidural morphine when...

Post-operative analgesia after remifentanil-based anaesthesia

Remifentanil is a very potent ultrashort acting opioid, that is mainly used as a part of balanced anaesthesia regimens for management of intraoperative pain. Effective plasma levels of this drug can only be maintained using continuous infusions, as tissue esterases inactivate remifentanil within minutes following its application. The advantages of this specific pharmacokinetic behaviour are tha...