purpose: to evaluate the efficacy of sub-tenon block (preemptive analgesia) following general anesthesia and before the beginning of scleral buckling and cryopexy in retinal detachment (rd) surgery on decreasing intra- and post-operative complications. methods: sixty eight patients scheduled for rd surgical repair with asa (american society of anesthesiologists) class і or ii were enrolled in t...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa background: in this randomized, double‑blinded study, we investigated the preemptive effects of propofol, remifentanil or ketamine on post‑operative pain scores and analgesic requirements in elective lower abdominal surgeries under general anesthesia during the first 24 h of post‑operative period. materials and methods: seventy five patients, ...

Effective pain relief is an essential component of a patient's peri-operative care package. Good analgesia has been shown to reduce the incidence of cardiovascular, respiratory and thrombo-embolic complications following surgery. Satisfactory analgesia facilitates early patient ambulation following surgery, which may reduce in-patient stay. Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) systems are a well ...

There has been an exponential growth in the volume of shoulder surgery in the last 2 decades and a very wide variety of anaesthetic techniques have emerged to provide anaesthesia and post-operative analgesia. In this article we examine current opinion, risks, benefits and practicalities of anaesthetic practice and the provision of post-operative analgesia for shoulder surgery.

Background: Caudal block is a regional anesthesia technique most commonly used for post-operative analgesia in children undergoing infraumbilical surgeries. The local anesthetics used in caudal block have the shortcoming of less duration of action which can be increased by adding adjuncts. The aim of our study was to compare the duration of post-operative analgesia when 0.2% ropivacaine versus ...

Background and Aims:Ensuring adequate analgesia in the post-operative period is an indispensable part of a balanced anesthesia technique with increasing scope of day care surgery and emphasis on early discharge. In children undergoing infraumbilical and lower limb surgeries, caudal block is a reliable and safe technique that can be used with general anesthesia for intra and post-operative analg...

Background & objective: The serratus anterior plane block (SAPB) is a recent technique providing effective perioperative analgesia in thoracic surgeries. This study compared the intra–operative hemodynamics and analgesic efficacy of superficial SAPB, to deep epidural thoracotomies.
 Methodology: one hundred eighty lung cancer patients scheduled for thoracotomy were randomly allocated t...