Articles: postoperative-pain.
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Anesteziol Reanimatol · Nov 1990
[The use of transcutaneous electric neurostimulation for postoperative analgesia in parturients undergoing cesarean section].
The study has been performed in 210 women with cesarean section: in 160 patients analgesia was performed with transcutaneous electrical neurostimulation and in 50 patients narcotic analgesics were used. It has been established that both techniques ensure adequate analgetic effect. At the same time transcutaneous electrical neurostimulation, ensuring good to excellent analgesia in 77.5% of women, has no negative effect on hemodynamics and respiratory function and accelerates rehabilitation processes.
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With the object of investigating the occurrence of pain and dysaesthesiae in the scar following mastectomy, 120 were interviewed by a standard questionnaire in a prospective study. These women had commenced postoperative control or treatment in the Department of Oncology in the University Hospital of Aarhus consecutively during a one-year period. One hundred and ten of these women were interviewed again one year later. ⋯ Twenty-seven patients (23%) had dysaesthesiae at the first interview while 29 patients experienced these continually one year after operation. Both the intensity and the duration of the scar pain diminished with the elapse of time. This held also true where dysaesthesiae were concerned but was not so marked.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
Postoperative analgesic requirements in patients exposed to positive intraoperative suggestions.
To establish whether positive suggestions given to a patient under general anaesthesia reduce postoperative pain and analgesic requirements. ⋯ Positive intraoperative suggestions seem to have a significant effect in reducing patients' morphine requirements in the early postoperative period.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study Clinical Trial
Comparison of i.m. ketorolac trometamol and morphine sulphate for pain relief after cholecystectomy.
I.m. ketorolac trometamol 30 mg was compared with morphine sulphate 10 mg after cholecystectomy in a double-blind, multiple dose, randomized study of 100 patients. Assessments of pain were made immediately after operation (day 1), and the next morning (day 2). Pain intensity (verbal response score and visual analogue scale) was recorded before injection and then over a 6-h period. ⋯ Ketorolac produced significantly less analgesia than morphine on day 1, but on day 2 the two drugs produced a similar effect. Blood loss was not increased by ketorolac, although platelet function was impaired. Repeated i.m. administration of ketorolac did not produce any serious adverse effects.