Articles: postoperative.
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To determine whether postoperative epidural analgesia is associated with better recurrence-free survival and overall survival after lung cancer surgery. ⋯ The type of postoperative analgesia used after surgery for nonsmall cell lung cancer is not associated with better 2-year or 5-year recurrence-free survival or overall survival rates.
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Postoperative pain is one of the most important complications encountered after surgery. A number of options are available for treating pain following surgery. One of those options is the use of intravenous patient-controlled analgesia (PCA). Ketamine is an anesthetic drug relieving pain with its NMDA receptor antagonistic effect. ⋯ The addition of ketamine to intravenous fentanyl plus acetaminophen PCA had not extra effects in relieving post abdominal surgery pain.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study
The analgesic efficiency of combined pregabalin and ketamine for total hip arthroplasty: a randomised, double-blind, controlled study.
Pregabalin and ketamine given together have a small, additive effect in reducing post-operative pain after total hip arthroplasty.
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