purpose: to evaluate the efficacy of sub-tenon block (preemptive analgesia) following general anesthesia and before the beginning of scleral buckling and cryopexy in retinal detachment (rd) surgery on decreasing intra- and post-operative complications. methods: sixty eight patients scheduled for rd surgical repair with asa (american society of anesthesiologists) class і or ii were enrolled in t...

Introduction: Optimum pain management immediately after surgeries can lower the possibility of pain syndrome and its following consequences. Opioids are amongst the analgesics used for postoperative pain control; however, their application can bring about several adverse effects. In this study, all the published articles regarding efficacy of Paracetamol   in post-cardiac surgery pain managemen...

INTRODUCTION Tonsillectomy is the one of the most common types of surgery in children, and is often accompanied by post-operative pain and discomfort. Methods of pain control such as use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), narcotics, and local anesthetics have been used, but each have their own particular side effects. In this study we investigated the effect of ketamine on post-...

BACKGROUND Ketorolac tromethanime is a non steroidal anti inflammatory drug and its efficacy on acute pain control after abdominal surgery has been well documented. It has a rapid onset and it can be given both for intra operative and for post operative pain management. AIM In this study we aimed to evaluate if there were any differences in relieving post operative pain when Ketorolac was adm...

introduction: optimum pain management immediately after surgeries can lower the possibility of pain syndrome and its following consequences. opioids are amongst the analgesics used for postoperative pain control; however, their application can bring about several adverse effects. in this study, all the published articles regarding efficacy of paracetamol   in post-cardiac surgery pain managemen...

post-operative pain and its management remains one of the most important issues in the field of surgery and health care system. on the other hand, opioid drug abuse has a large prevalence in iran. formalin test has been used as a method for assessing pain and analgesia in rats. in the present study, the post-operative pain in morphine addicted rats was compared with that of non-addicted ones us...

OBJECTIVE To identify pre-operative predictors of patient-reported outcomes of primary total knee replacement (TKR) surgery. METHODS The Elective Orthopaedic Centre database is a large prospective cohort of 1991 patients receiving primary TKR in south-west London from 2005 to 2008. The primary outcome is the 6-month post-operative Oxford Knee Score (OKS). To classify whether patients had a cl...