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Filter by:The study will evaluate the effect of Dexmedetomidine sedation on the duration of infraclavicular block in patients scheduled for surgery of elbow, forearm and/or hand. All patients will receive infraclavicular block before the surgery and then they will be randomized to receive either Dexmedetomidine or Propofol sedation. Duration of the sensory block will be evaluated in recovery room, 24 and 48 hours after the surgery. Hypothesis: Primary: Dexmedetomidine sedation increases the duration of sensory infraclavicular block in patients scheduled for upper limb surgery. Secondary: Dexmedetomidine sedation - Gives an adequate level of sedation during the surgical procedure - Reduces the requirements of postoperative opioids - Improves the quality of sleep on the night of the surgery - Increases patients satisfaction regarding the anesthesia technique - Dexmedetomidine sedation is safe and easy to use - Dexmedetomidine sedation provides less respiratory depression during the procedure.
This study was designed to assess whether the injection of local anesthetic into the nerve (intraneural), as opposed to around it (perineural), leads to longer anesthesia and analgesia of the leg. Some reports of accidental intraneural injection mention an extremely long duration. When different drugs and doses were evaluated in a clinical trial of intraneural injection, a longer-than-expected duration was reported. The investigators will compare the two types of injection using the same drug, so as to determine if there is an actual difference in duration.
Postoperative pain after Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VAT) is still debating. Therefore the investigators conduct a study comparing 0.15 mg spinal morphine and control group in term of analgesia.
To test if multimodal analgesia with different analgesic medication offer better pain relief, lesser side effects and is safe compared to conventionel opiod analgesia after cardiac surgery.
Abdominal wall incisions used for liver surgeries are associated with significant postoperative pain and disability. Epidural analgesia is often contraindicated in these patients due to common bleeding problems. Furthermore, drugs such as acetaminophen and opioids are often inadequate and can lead to detrimental side-effects. Abdominal wall (AW) catheters can be placed during surgical closure along the incision line and can be used to administer local anesthetics for postoperative pain. The study is a multi-centre, double-blind, randomized controlled trial involving 120 patients undergoing elective liver surgery. Patients will be randomly assigned to AW catheter group treated with drug or control treated with saline. Treatment group will receive AW catheters with ropivacaine plus standard patient controlled analgesia (PCA). Control group will obtain AW with normal saline and no local anesthetics and PCA. Patients are followed for 6 months post-operatively for pain scores, side-effects, chronic pain and complications.
Pain score after inguinal hernia repair surgery in children decreased as time passed in previous studies. Postoperative oral intake is usually resumed two hours after minor surgery in most of institutions, that may influence children's behavior and pain score. A recent study suggest that oral intake one hour after minor surgery does not increase the incidence of postoperative nausea and vomiting. The investigators primary endpoint is to clarify whether postoperative oral intake influences postoperative pain score in children.
Our routine practice for patients undergoing mastectomy is to include paravertebral peripheral nerve blockade for postoperative analgesia. This study investigates whether the addition of another nerve block targeting the pectoral nerves will improve that analgesia.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate how effective is the preoperative administration of pregabalin 300mg, to attenuate postoperative pain and opioids consumption after laparoscopic colorectal surgery
Chlorzoxazone is a centrally acting muscle relaxant used to treat muscle spasm and the resulting pain or discomfort. It acts on the spinal cord by depressing reflexes. Our purpose is to investigate the effect of chlorzoxazone on moderate to severe postoperative pain after spine surgery. Our hypothesis is that chlorzoxazone can reduce postoperative pain and reduce opioidconsumption and side effects compared to placebo.
Analgesia after cesarean section is still not satisfactory for many women. Even if pain reduction is sufficient with the technique of intrathecal morphine injection, side effects such as nausea and pruritus are common. Since several years, an alternative technique has been studied, the "transversus abdominis plane (TAP)"-block. Here a local anesthetic is injected in the abdominal wall muscles, and this has been shown to give a similar analgesic effect compared to intrathecal morphine, with potentially less side effects. With this study, we want to evaluate if the TAP-block yields indeed less side effects when compared with intrathecal morphine. The study will be a prospective study with the patients randomized to either a group with intrathecal morphine or a group with TAP-block.