Caudal Blockade for Postoperative Analgesia: A Useful Adjunct to Intramuscular Opiates following Emergency Lower Leg Orthopaedic Surgery
| Autor: | A. Mccrirrick, D. T. O. Ramage |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Sacrum medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors medicine.medical_treatment Opium Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine Injections Intramuscular 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Double-Blind Method medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Pain Measurement Bupivacaine Leg Pain Postoperative business.industry Nerve Block 030208 emergency & critical care medicine Papaveretum Surgery Blockade Analgesia Epidural Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine medicine.anatomical_structure Anesthesia Injections Intravenous Orthopedic surgery Nerve block Female Caudal epidural Ankle Emergencies business medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Anaesthesia and Intensive Care. 19:551-554 |
| ISSN: | 1448-0271 0310-057X |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0310057x9101900411 |
| Popis: | The efficacy of a single caudal epidural injection of bupivacaine 20 ml 0.5% following emergency orthopaedic surgery to the lower leg and ankle was investigated. Forty adult patients were studied, randomised to either the caudal or control group. The mean 24 hour postoperative papaveretum consumption was significantly reduced in the caudal group. Analogue pain scores as assessed in a double-blind manner were also significantly reduced in this group. The duration of analgesia after caudal blockade was approximately eight hours as estimated by the average time to the first dose of papaveretum. Our study demonstrates that caudal blockade represents an effective adjunct to intramuscular opiates following this type of surgery. |
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