OBJECTIVE Studies in other surgical specialties have suggested that pre-emptive wound infiltration using a local anesthetic may reduce post-operative pain. We report the first randomized trial to assess the use of pre-emptive local anesthesia in video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS). METHOD Thirty-one consecutive patients undergoing bilateral needlescopic VATS sympathectomy for palmar hyperh...

conclusions both methods lia and sfnb provided excellent pain relief and lower morphine consumption following tka. lia is a surgeon-controlled analgesic technique, which can be used to enhance patients’ satisfaction and reduce the pain in the very early postoperative period by surgeon independently. results group i had significantly lower morphine consumption in the first postoperative day (10 ...

Introduction: Although patients do not experience sever pain after laparoscopic surgery, most of them experience acute or chronic pain afterward. While conventional pain killers including NSAID and narcotics in laparoscopic surgery have specific side effects, their application is inevitable. This study compares the efficacy of local anesthetic drugs and conventional pain killers in post-operati...

PURPOSE This study examined the subacute myotoxic effects of injection of the local anesthetic bupivacaine on the orbicularis oculi muscle in the rabbit eyelid. In contrast to other muscles, the orbicularis oculi was resistant to injury by the usual anesthetic doses of bupivacaine when local infiltration is used. An attempt was made to assess the sensitivity of orbicularis oculi muscle to bupiv...

Local anesthesia is one of the most frequently performed and important procedures in the daily practice of dentistry. Temporary anesthesia is a prerequisite to ensure painless treatment and is therefore important for the success of various dental therapeutic procedures. Furthermore, a comfortable and consistent local anesthesia can increase the level of trust between the patient and the operato...

INTRODUCTION The aim of the present study was to compare the efficacy of 2% lidocaine to 4% articaine in buccal infiltration of maxillary first molars with irreversible pulpitis. Moreover, the effect of root length on success of anesthesia irrespective of the type of anesthetic agent was assessed. METHODS AND MATERIALS Fifty patients suffering from painful maxillary first molars with irrevers...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether local bupivacaine injection into the incision site after gynecologic laparoendoscopic single site surgery (LESS) improves postoperative pain. METHODS This prospective cohort study included consecutive 158 patients who had LESS for benign adnexal disease from March 2013 to December 2015. Chronologically, 82 patients (March 2013 to August 2014) received no bupivac...

PURPOSE Tizanidine is a clonidine derivative and has the same effects, such as sedation, anxiolysis and analgesic response. We evaluated the effect of tizanidine on infiltration pain during epidural catheterization. METHODS Forty patients scheduled to undergo epidural anesthesia in elective surgery were randomly allocated into two groups. The control group received placebo 60 minutes before a...