Postoperative pain relief.

Extradural clonidine for postoperative pain relief.

Suxamethonium and auditory evoked potentials Sir,—I read with interest the article by Brunner and colleagues on the relationship between suxamethonium and cortical auditory evoked potentials [1]. The focus of the article was the hypothesis that suxamethonium may cause arousal of anaesthetized patients, but no plausible explanations were offered by the authors as to the possible mechanism. I sus...

Continuous infusion of papaveretum for relief of postoperative pain.

Postoperative analgesia, once established initially by the titration method, is sustained with a flexible regime of papaveretum, infused continuously with a portable syringe pump. The initial analgesic requirement (TAR) for titrating the pain threshold level, was between 4 and 10 mg of papaveretum and the maintenance dose between 1 and 1-66 mg/hr for the first 24 hr and between 083 and 1 mg/hr ...

Intraperitoneal Ropivacaine Instillation for Postoperative Pain Relief after Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

130 Correspondence to: Hyun Kang, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, College of Medicine, Chung-Ang University, 224-1, Heukseok-dong, Dongjak-gu, Seoul 156-755, Korea. Tel: 02-62992571, Fax: 02-6299-2585, E-mail: [email protected] Received February 22, 2010, Accepted May 4, 2010 Intraperitoneal Ropivacaine Instillation for Postoperative Pain Relief after Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

Perioperative Pregabalin for Postoperative Pain Relief after Thoracotomy

Background: Pregabalin is efective both at controlling postoperative pain and preventing chronic neuropathic pain. Local anaesthetic iniltration is a simple and inexpensive method to provide postoperative analgesia. In this study we tested the hypothesis that pregabalin administered perioperatively combined with continuous wound infusion will aid better the post-thoracotomy pain management comp...

Postoperative pain relief after total hip and knee replacement