Introduction: The most important role in postoperative pain management is still played by opioids administered through various modes. In the last few years, there had been an intensive search for alternative mode of opioids administration in pain management. The intranasal mode of opioids administration seems to be attractive alternative. Methods: Sixty boys (aged 0.5-6 yr); ASA physical stat...

OBJECTIVE Postoperative pain is one of the major complaints of patients after lumbar fusion surgery. The authors evaluated the effects of intravenous patient controlled analgesia (IV-PCA) using fentanyl or sufentanil on postoperative pain management and pain-related complications. METHODS Forty-two patients that had undergone surgery with lumbar instrumentation and fusion at single or double ...

Objective: To study the safety and efficacy of dezocine in patients during recovery from general anesthesia after thoracic surgery. Methods: A total of 90 patients (ASA physical status I and II) receiving thoracotomy were randomly divided into three groups. Fifteen minutes before the end of operation, patients in the control group were given 2 mL saline intravenously, patients in sufentanil gro...

One hundred adult female patients scheduled for outpatient laparoscopic procedures were studied. Each patient received intravenous premedication about 30 min before induction of anaesthesia. The premedications were given in a double-blind random order and were either a placebo, morphine (0.04 mg/kg), meperidine (0.35 mg/kg), fentanyl (0.75 microgram/kg) or sufentanil (0.15 microgram/kg). All pa...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to compare the safety concerning cerebral hemodynamics of ketamine and sufentanil used for sedation of severe head injury patients, both drugs being used in combination with midazolam. DESIGN Prospective, randomized, double-blind study. SETTING Intensive care unit in a trauma center. PATIENTS Twenty-five patients with severe head injury. INTERVENTIONS ...

conclusions we found that 0.3 mcg/kg of sufentanil attenuates cardiovascular responses to double-lumen endobronchial intubation without adverse effects. background sufentanil is a potent opioid analgesic frequently used in clinical anesthesia. double-lumen endobronchial intubation induces profound cardiovascular responses in comparison with ordinary endotracheal intubation because of the larger...

conclusions the findings showed that adding sufentanil or midazolam to bupivacaine shortens the onset of spinal anesthesia and increases the time duration of anesthesia; however it does not change the motor block recovery time. adding sufentanil delays the first request for narcotic analgesics while adding midazolam leads to a decrease in nausea and hypotension. adding sufentanil or midazolam d...

BACKGROUND Intrathecal adjutants can be used for regional anesthesia (RA) in cesarean section to improve its quality in terms of time and complications. Some previous studies focused on the effects of adding sufentanil and/or midazolam to bupivacaine and compared each with using bupivacaine alone. However, there has been no study to assess the effects of using sufentanil and midazolam in combin...