BACKGROUND Thoracoscopic anterior scoliosis instrumentation is a safe and viable surgical option for corrective fusion of progressive adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) and has been performed at our centre on 205 patients since 2000. However, there is a paucity of literature reporting on or examining optimum methods of analgesia following this type of surgery. A retrospective study was desig...

Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effeciveness of postoperative analgesia of thoracic paravertebral nerve block in comparison to intrapleural analgesia after cancer breast surgery. Methods: The study was carried out on thirty patients subjected to cancer breast surgery . General anesthesia was fixed for all patients as follow: peroxygenation by 100% oxygen for at least 3 min...

INTRODUCTION Thoracic trauma is the second most prevalent nonintentional injury in the United States and is associated with significant morbidity. Analgesia for blunt thoracic trauma was first addressed by the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) with a practice management guideline published in 2005. Since that time, it was hypothesized that there have been advances in the anal...

background patient-controlled analgesia is used for both labor and postoperative analgesia. objectives this study aimed to assess user satisfaction and functionality of two ambulatory, electronic patient controlled analgesia devices, the gemstar pump hospira inc., illinois, usa) and the ambit ambulatory infusion therapy pump (sorenson medical products, utah, usa). patients and methods it was a ...

background: the aim of this study is comparing acth changes in epidural and intravenous analgesia technique after lower limb orthopedic surgery.methods: in a randomized clinical trial in hazrat rasool  akram hospital during 1387-88 , 60 patients candidate for surgery on the lower extremities were randomly allocated to receive either postoperative analgesia  with epidural analgesia (pcea) or iv ...