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...

conclusions the results show that the analgesic and sedative effects were better when dexmedetomidine was added to bupivacaine than when fentanyl was added or bupivacaine alone was administered in the pediatric population studied here that underwent elective inguinal hernia repair. results a total of 61 patients were analyzed. the lowest pain scores were found in the bd group at all time points...

conclusions magnesium at low dose decreases sore throat and pain severity more effectively compared to ketamine gargle. results there were no significant differences between age, sex, and body mass index (bmi) between two groups of patients. hemodynamics of patients, including blood pressure, respiratory rate, oxygen saturation %, and conscious state were not significantly different (p > 0.05)....

conclusions totally, according to the obtained results it may be concluded that paracetamol and diclofenac combination would have a better efficacy in postoperative pain control and need reduction to additive analgesia compared to meperidine. patients and methods one hundred and twenty women candidates for elective cesarean section under spinal anesthesia categorized as asa class i were selecte...

background intra-articular analgesia is a pain reliever that is frequently administered following arthroscopic knee surgery. objectives the purpose of this study was to compare the efficacy of intra-articular applicationrnof morphine and tramadol on postoperative pain after arthroscopic knee surgery patients and methods for this randomized double blinded clinical trial, 132 patientsrnundergoing...

background: we performed this study to evaluate the efficacy of melatonin, clonidine and gabapentin in reducing preoperative anxiety and postoperative pain in patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy. methods: this study was a randomized clinical trial on patients scheduled for laparoscopic cholecystectomy. a total number of 88 patients were categorized into four groups to receive melat...

background: strabismus surgery under general anesthesia is one of the most common ophthalmic procedures in children with emergence delirium as an important post-operative complication. additionally, postoperative pain is another important issue which is considered as a contributing factor to emergence delirium. we conducted a study to compare meperidine with paracetamol on postoperative pain an...

conclusions intravenous acetaminophen administered before caesarean section reduced tachycardia after intubation, narcotic drugs administration during and after the operation and reduced pain in pacu. results patients in the saline group experienced more pain in the recovery room (vas 7.0 ± 1.24 vs. 6.15 ± 2.27; p value = 0.041) and required more fentanyl intraoperatively (150 µg vs. 87.7 ± 75;...