background postoperative pain is considered as a reason of patient’s delay in discharge and disability aggravation. therefore, multimodal approaches have been suggested in order to mitigate pain and decrease postoperative side effects. objectives the aim of this study was to evaluate analgesic effect of a single dose injection of dexamethasone on reducing postoperative pain in laparoscopic chol...

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...

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 investigate if the addition of dexmedetomidine to meperidine in a patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) device would reduce postoperative meperidine consumption when compared with meperidine alone. METHODS Forty patients scheduled for elective abdominal surgery under general anesthesia in Suleyman Demirel University Medical School, Isparta, Turkey between February and September 2006...

BACKGROUND Pain relief after surgery is an essential component of postoperative care. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to compare the efficacy of intravenous acetaminophen and intravenous meperidine in pain relief after outpatient urological surgery. PATIENTS AND METHODS In a prospective, randomized, double-blind clinical trial, 100 outpatients of urological surgery were studied in ...

Background: Pain is a major problem regarding quality of life in children undergoing surgicaloperation.Pain assessment the most important and critical component pain management. Oral andrectal paracetamol formulations are associated with slower onset action more variableanalgesic activity than IV acetaminophen, making them less useful preoperative acute caresettings. Objective: To find out effe...

background the involved neurotransmitter pathways in the postoperative shivering (pos) are poorly understood. recently, 5-hydroxytryptamine 3 (5-ht3) receptor antagonists have been reported to prevent pos. we investigated the effect of ondansetron, a 5-ht3 antagonist that is used to treat postoperative nausea and vomiting, on shivering. objectives this study aimed to compare the efficacy of ond...

background tonsillectomy is a common procedure causing considerable postoperative pain. postoperative pain intensity of 60 - 70 in the scale of visual analog scale (vas) has been reported up to 3 - 4 days which could continue until 11 days after the surgery. objectives the current study aimed to compare the analgesic effect of gabapentin and diclofenac on pain after tonsillectomy with the contr...