Many physicians, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs), and registered nurses have the clinical impression that either morphine sulfate or meperidine hydrochloride is a better drug to control postoperative pain. In this study, we evaluated pain relief and side effects for these two drugs to assess their potential differences. CRNAs conducted a structured interview of 500 female patien...

How the Drug Works Pentazocine is an analgesic with agonist/ antagonist action. By competing for the mu receptor in certain circumstances it may act as a mu opioid receptor antagonist and a kappa opioid receptor agonist, which when administered orally is approximately equivalent on a mg-for-mg basis in analgesic effect to codeine. Onset and duration of action and the degree of pain relief are r...

BACKGROUND Postoperative pain is considered as a reason of patient's delay in discharge and disability aggravation. Therefore, multimodal approaches have been suggested in order to mitigate pain and decrease postoperative side effects. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate analgesic effect of a single dose injection of dexamethasone on reducing postoperative pain in laparoscopic ch...

Critical care nurses and physicians are familiar with the principles of patient controlled analgesia and the opioid analgesics' regimens and observations necessary for pain control in the postoperative cardiac surgical patients. The objective of the study was to compare the effects of morphine, fentanyl, meperidine, remifentanil and tramadol which were administered by patient controlled analges...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the cardiopulmonary effects of 2 sedation regimens during treatment: (1) oral meperidine and hydroxyzine with nitrous oxide (N2O); and (2) oral diazepam and hydroxyzine, submucosal meperidine, and N2O. Nitrous oxide was tapered to oxygen (O2) only 10 minutes following submucosal meperidine administration. METHODS Sixty-two children were evalua...

conclusions although postoperative intra-articular meperidine is a better alternative for bupivacaine, their combination could improve their analgesic effects compared with each other alone. results the bupivacaine-meperidine group had better duration of postoperative analgesia (p = 0.001), latter first analgesic request (p ≤ 0.001), lower total fentanyl consumption in first 24 hours after the ...

background: in most operating and recovery rooms, shivering is controlled by the use of humidifiers, warming blankets, and inhalation of humidified heated oxygen. however, pharmacological control is an effective alternative treatment modality. this study was designed to compare the efficacy of tramadol versus meperidine in the treatment of shivering after spinal anesthesia. methods: in a double...

conclusions administration of intravenous acetaminophen before ending appendectomy might be more effective than meperidine in postoperative pain management while having fewer complications. patients and methods in this randomized clinical trial study, forty patients with asa- class i or ii who were candidates for emergency appendectomy were randomly divided into two groups. induction and mainte...

conclusions lidocaine-meperidine-diltiazem gel provides significantly better pain control than lidocaine-diltiazem gel and lidocaine gel alone during transrectal ultrasound guided prostate biopsy and probe insertion. this mixture gel is safe, easy to administer and well accepted by patients. results the mean of visual analog pain scale was 4.5 in group a, 3.5 in group b, and 2.0 in group c duri...