1* Associate Professor , 2 Associate Professor Department of Anesthesiology, Government Siddhartha Medical College, Vijayawada *Corresponding Author Dr Abhimanyu Singh Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Government Siddhartha Medical College, Vijayawada, Email: [email protected] ABSTRACT Background: Postoperative pain is acute with complex physiological responses to tissue inj...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Controlled hypotension with balanced anaesthesia minimises blood loss. This study was done to evaluate the effectiveness of intravenous clonidine as a single bolus dose to establish controlled hypotension during functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS). METHODS This randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study was done in a tertiary hospital in India. Sixty America...

Objective: To determine the efficacy of post-operative pain control over the first 24 hours in patients undergoing unilateral total knee arthroplasty (TKA) using a multi-modal analgesia protocol including femoral nerve catheters (FNC). Materials and Methods: 119 patients who underwent unilateral TKA between 2009 and 2010 under regional anesthesia with FNC were studied. Electronic charts were re...

OBJECTIVE To study the common methods of analgesia and their effectiveness in post-operative patients and to assess the occurrence of common post-operative complications related to pain. DESIGN A prospective descriptive study. SETTINGS Three general surgical wards and one cardiothoracic ward at the Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, between 1st September 1996 and 30th November 1996. PAT...

Regional techniques provides excellent post operative pain relief in pediatric patients. Transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block is a newer regional technique available. Though there is emerging evidence proving the efficacy of TAP blocks, there is limited literature on use of TAP catheters in pediatric patients. TAP catheters were placed in two children following laparotomy with transverse inc...

We read with great interest the article of Wang et al.1 concerning the use of continuous local anesthetic infusion via catheters placed with ultrasound guided and nerve stimulator beside femoral nerve for postoperative analgesia after total knee arthroplasty (TKA). We congratulate them on the presentation of the article. However, we would like to add some comments. We agree with author that reh...

Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: Due to expertise of anesthesiologists in analgesics pharmacology, epidural and peripheral nerve blockade, they have pioneered in the postoperative pain management. Reading this article is beneficial for physicians, interventional pain managers and who care about pain medicine. The practice of modern anesthesiology has been devel...

Objectives: Caudal epidural analgesia is one of the most commonly performed regional techniques in paediatric anaesthesia for intra and post-operative analgesia.Various adjuvant like α-2 agonists, ketamine, opioids etc. have been used to prolong the caudal analgesia. With favourable results dexmedetomidine, has been popularly used. Here we intend to study two different doses, 1μg/kg which has b...

The intra-articular injection of local anaesthetic is frequently used for pain relief after arthroscopy. There is, however, no published evidence of the analgesic effect of bupivacaine in the ankle. In a randomised, double-blind study, 35 patients undergoing arthroscopy of the ankle were allocated to receive intra-articular saline or bupivacaine. Pain was assessed using pain scores and addition...