Epidural analgesia is a popular and effective method for pain relief during labor. Bupivacaine is a commonly used local anesthetic for labor epidural analgesia. Ropivacaine is an amino acid local anesthetic that is structurally related to bupivacaine with a similar potency and duration, but ropivacaine has less cardiac toxicity than bupivacaine and produces less motor blockade. These properties...

backgrounds: the aim of this study was to determine if preemptive local anesthesia yields better postoperative pain control than infiltration of local anesthesia at the time of wound closure. methods: forty patients aged between 1 and 10 years were randomly allocated to one of the two groups by using a sealed envelope technique. group 1 received 0.5 mg/kg bupivacaine 20 minutes before the incis...

General anaesthesia is the controlled and reversible loss of consciousness, which is helpful in ruminants for many surgical procedures that warrant effective control of pain and movement. General anaesthesia is indicated when the demands of technical and anatomical aspects of surgical procedure exceed the capabilities of sedative drugs and local analgesia. Moreover, the patient co-operation and...

Delivery by caesarean section (CS) is becoming more frequent. Childbirth is an emotion-filled event, and the mother needs to bond with her baby as early as possible. Any intervention that leads to improvement in pain relief is worthy of investigation. Local anaesthetics have been employed as an adjunct to other methods of postoperative pain relief, but reports on the effectiveness of this strat...

AIM In paediatric dentistry, epinephrine may contribute to systemic and local side-effects. On the other hand it is necessary to provide good and safe local analgesia. Therefore, an articaine solution with reduced epinephrine concentration was tested in a clinical setting. METHODS In a non-interventional clinical study, dental treatment was performed in children and adolescents (4-17 years). ...

Editor’s key points † Umbilical hernia repair in children is associated with considerable postoperative discomfort. † Rectus sheath blocks (RSBs) and local anaesthetic infiltration of the surgical site (LAI) are used for providing postoperative analgesia for umbilical hernia repair. † Ultrasound-guided RSB provides superior analgesia in the perioperative period compared with LAI for umbilical h...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Continuous wound infusion has been investigated as a method of postoperative pain control and its efficacy has been demonstrated when compared to saline infusion. The objective of this study was to compare the quality of postoperative analgesia, the use of opioids as rescue analgesia, patient satisfaction, and the incidence of complications between epidural catheter in...