conclusions administration of intravenous acetaminophen before ending appendectomy might be more effective than meperidine in postoperative pain management while having fewer complications. patients and methods in this randomized clinical trial study, forty patients with asa- class i or ii who were candidates for emergency appendectomy were randomly divided into two groups. induction and mainte...

Introduction: The most important role in postoperative pain management is still played by opioids administered through various modes. In the last few years, there had been an intensive search for alternative mode of opioids administration in pain management. The intranasal mode of opioids administration seems to be attractive alternative. Methods: Sixty boys (aged 0.5-6 yr); ASA physical stat...

BACKGROUD The main advantage of laparoscopic surgery is that it is minimally invasive because of the use of small incisions. An approach using small incisions offers many benefits including attenuation of surgical wound pain. However, the presence of postoperative pain may undermine the advantages of laparoscopic surgery as a minimally invasive technique. In addition, perioperative pain managem...

Spinal fusion surgery is a major surgery that results in severe postoperative pain, therefore pain reduction is a primary concern. New strategies for pain management are currently under investigation and include multimodal treatment. A 3-year retrospective analysis of patients with idiopathic scoliosis undergoing spinal fusion surgery was performed at our hospital, assessing patient pain scores...

conclusions these findings indicate the usefulness of pca compared to the routine methods on pain relief after operation.therefore this method can be recommended to alleviate postoperative pain. background unrelieved pain after surgery can lead to increased postoperative complications, prolonged hospital stay and delayed recovery. patient-controlled analgesia (pca) has emerged as a standard tec...

background: postoperative pain control after cesarean section (c/s) is important because inadequate postoperative pain control can result in a prolonged hospital stay. in this study, we compared postoperative somatic wound pain control between patients receiving tramadol and bupivacaine, infiltrated at the wound site. methods: in this randomized clinical trial, 98 patients, eligible for electiv...

objective: t o evaluate the effects of intravenous ketorolac on early postoperative pain in patients with mandibular fractures, who underwent surgical repair. methods: this prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial was conducted in shahid rajaei hospital, affiliated with shiraz university of medical sciences during a 1-year period from 2015 to 2016. we included a total number o...

background: adjuvants such as ketamine, promethazine and paracetamol could bring up patients satisfaction and control harmful effects of opioids besides lessening their needed doses, as seen by fentanyl/paracetamol and fentanyl/ketamine combination before. the current study headed to compare paracetamol and ketamine in addition to fentanyl applied by infusion pumps in order to pain relief follo...

background: this double-blinded, randomized clinical trial was designed to evaluate the comparison of intravenous versus intraarticular (ia) administration of midazolam on postoperative pain after knee arthroscopy. materials and methods: in this study, 75 patients randomized in three groups to receive 75 mc/kg ia injection of midazolam and 10 ml intravenous injection of isotonic saline (group i...