Background and Aims: Trans-rectal ultrasound guided prostate biopsy (TRUS) remains the gold standard to diagnose patients with prostate cancer. The purpose of this study is to prospectively evaluate the efficacy of diclofenac suppository versus diclofenac patch as compared to placebo, on pain reduction during prostate biopsy. Methods: A prospective, randomized, single-blind, placebo controlled ...

Dear Editor, We have examined attentively the latest manuscript by Yeganeh Mogadam et al. entitled " Comparison of Analgesic Effect between Gabapentin and Diclofenac on Post-Operative Pain in Patients Undergoing Tonsillectomy " available in Archives of Trauma Research (1). Ninety patients were included to receive 20 mg/kg oral gabapentin (n = 30), 1.0 mg/kg rectal diclofenac (n = 30) or placebo...

BACKGROUND The unimodal approach of using pentazocine as post-cesarean section pain relief is inadequate, hence the need for a safer, easily available and more effective multimodal approach. AIM To evaluate the effectiveness of rectal diclofenac combined with intramuscular pentazocine for postoperative pain following cesarean section. METHODS In this double blind clinical trial, 130 pregnan...

background: narcotic drugs are usually used for postoperative pain control which could cause several complications such as respiratory depression and apnea. therefore, replacement of these drugs with safer analgesics is recommended. the aim of this study was to compare the analgesic effects of suppository diclofenac and pethidine in post-cesarean section (c/s) patients. methods: in this clinica...

Objective: To compare the mean post-operative pain after intramuscular versus rectal Diclofenac Sodium in post-caesarean patients.
 Study Design: Quasi-experimental study.
 Place and Duration of Study: Department Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Benazir Bhutto Hospital, Rawalpindi Pakistan, from May to Nov 2017.
 Methodology: A total 60 women, aged 18-45years, undergoing elective ca...

Background
 About 80% of the patients experience enough post-operative pain to require analgesia. Adequate relief is needed after caesarean section assist ambulation , mother / baby bonding & above all, a pleasant being mother. Different analgesics with various routes administrations are available for which include opioids and NSAIDS. Opiods known their undesireable side effects . Dicl...

Rectal nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are not commonly used clinically for preventing post-endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) pancreatitis. To evaluate the efficacy and safety of NSAIDs for post-ERCP prophylaxis, we systematically reviewed sixteen randomized controlled trials (involving 6458 patients) that compared rectal NSAIDs with placebo or no treatment for...