Prolonged Wound Analgesia after Surgical Operations

Local Analgesia in Surgical Operations

The skilful employment of local analgesia in surgery can only be relied upon where due consideration is paid to a variety of factors, so numerous that their mastery calls for no small degree of patience, and so essential that the neglect of any one of them will almost certainly lead to some degree of failure. The factors which it is necessary to consider may be reviewed under the following head...

Prolonged block with recovery after extradural analgesia for labour.

A patient had a prolonged block after continuous extradural analgesia in labour. The block was unilateral, but 60 min after a second block there was bilateral sensory and motor loss. The original unblocked side did not recover fully until more than 60 hr. The local anaesthetic agent was 18 ml of bupivacine 0.5% plain.

Surgical ICU recidivism after cardiac operations.

BACKGROUND Decreasing the ICU length of stay (LOS) after cardiac operations may increase ICU recidivism, obviating the benefit of early discharge. METHODS From January 1, 1994 to January 1, 1998, there were 2,388 consecutive cardiac operations, from which 2,228 patients were discharged alive from the ICU and had sufficient information to determine their incidence of ICU return, the reasons fo...

Methadone produces prolonged postoperative analgesia.

Wound Analgesia in Trauma Patients

Physical and psychosocial functioning following motor vehicle trauma The relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder and trauma cognitions Infections and treatment of wounds in survivors of the 2004 Tsunami in Thailand Field hospital analgesia The evolution of pain management in the critically ill trauma patient What is the ideal pre-hospital analgesic? Continuous infusion of local...