Evaluation of Post-operative Analgesia in the Immediate Post-operative Period of Recovering Patients

Post-operative Analgesia in Opioid Dependent Patients: Comparison of ‎Intravenous Morphine and Sublingual Buprenorphine

Background: Acute and chronic pain is prevalent in patients with opioid dependence. Lack of knowledge concerning the complex relationship between pain, opioid use, and withdrawal syndrome can account for the barriers encountered for pain management. This study was designed to evaluate the efficacy of sublingual (SL) buprenorphine for post-operative analgesia, compared with intravenous (IV) morp...

[Immediate post-operative period in patients undergoing total thyroidectomy in the ICU].

Patients subject to total thyrodectomy are not usually treated after surgery in the ICU. After analyzing a series of 45 patients which were admitted in our unit and evaluating the possible complications that could arise in the postoperative of thyroid surgery, we justified their admission at least during the first few hours after immediate surgery. The patients admitted benefit from continuous ...

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...

[Immediate post-operative care following cardiac surgery].

OBJECTIVE To present a care routine for children submitted to heart surgery. SOURCE OF DATA Literature review of Medscape, MD Consult and PubMed. Analysis of the suggested conducts adopted by various services from different countries and comparison with the care routine at the Pequeno Príncipe Children's Hospital (Curitiba, state of Paraná), where approximately 8,000 heart surgeries were perf...

Novel concepts of analgesia for post operative pain: Multimodal analgesia