Regional anesthesia and pain medicine
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Reg Anesth Pain Med · Jul 1998
Editorial CommentProblems with combined spinal and epidural anesthesia.
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Reg Anesth Pain Med · May 1998
Clinical Trial Controlled Clinical TrialPostoperative epidural injection of saline can shorten postanesthesia care unit time for knee arthroscopy patients.
The goal of this prospective, double-blind study was to ascertain if the postanesthesia care unit (PACU) stay of outpatients receiving epidural anesthesia for knee arthroscopy is decreased by injection of epidural saline at the end of the case. ⋯ Patients receiving epidural anesthesia for knee arthroscopy had a shorter PACU stay if they received an injection of saline into the epidural space at the end of surgery.
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Reg Anesth Pain Med · May 1998
Case ReportsSix years of continuous intrathecal infusion of opioid and bupivacaine in the treatment of refractory pain due to intrapelvic extrusion of bone cement after total hip arthroplasty.
There is at present no reliable method for long-term treatment of severe pain following complications of total hip arthroplasty. We explored the long-term use of continuous intrathecal opioid/bupivacaine analgesia in a case not amendable to corrective surgery. ⋯ Intrathecal infusion of opioid/bupivacaine can provide satisfactory long-term analgesia in patients with refractory pain from the hip joint.