Pain relief after daycase tonsillectomy in children

Pain Relief in Patients Undergoing Tonsillectomy

This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unresricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. It is with great interest that I read the research article by Dr. Mogadam and colleagues: Comparison of Analgesic Effect betw...

Effect of Ketamine on Post-Tonsillectomy Sedation and Pain Relief

Introduction: Tonsillectomy is the one of the most common types of surgery in children, and is often accompanied by post-operative pain and discomfort. Methods of pain control such as use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), narcotics, and local anesthetics have been used, but each have their own particular side effects. In this study we investigated the effect of ketamine on post...

pain relief in patients undergoing tonsillectomy

Pain relief for children after adenotonsillectomy.

Effective pain relief following adenotonsillectomy in children remains a challenge. This study evaluated the effects of intramuscular 0.5 mg/kg ketamine, 1 mg/kg tramadol or 1 mg/kg meperidine on post-operative pain and recovery in 45 children aged 1-7 years undergoing adenotonsillectomy. Anaesthesia was induced with thiopental or sevoflurane (with succinylcholine for intubation) and was mainta...

[Administration of paracetamol versus dipyrone by intravenous patient-controlled analgesia for postoperative pain relief in children after tonsillectomy].

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE We compared the efficacy of intravenous (IV) paracetamol versus dipyrone via patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) for postoperative pain relief in children. METHODS The study was composed of 120 children who had undergone elective tonsillectomy after receiving general anesthesia. Patients were divided into 3 groups according to the dosage of postoperative intravenous-pa...