Relief of postoperative pain with jaw relaxation, music and their combination

Relief of postoperative pain with jaw relaxation, music and their combination.

The aim of this randomized controlled trial was to determine the effect of jaw relaxation, music and the combination of relaxation and music on postoperative pain after major abdominal surgery during ambulation and rest on postoperative days 1 and 2. Opioid medication provided for pain, following abdominal surgery, does not always give sufficient relief and can cause undesired side effects. Thu...

The efficacy of intramuscular ketorolac in combination with intravenous PCA morphine for postoperative pain relief.

STUDY OBJECTIVE To examine the efficacy of intramuscular (IM) ketorolac used in combination with intravenous (IV) patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) morphine for postoperative pain relief following intra-abdominal gynecologic surgery. DESIGN Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. SETTING Patient care unit at a university medical center. PATIENTS Thirty-five healthy women unde...

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...

Postoperative pain relief after total hip and knee replacement

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 ...