visceral pain/hemorrhage

Introduction: Postoperative pain is one of the greatest patient concerns following any surgery. Although an increased emphasis has been placed on pain management, approximately 80% of surgical patients report postoperative pain with 86% of patients rating their pain as moderate, severe, or

Research Proposal and significance Postoperative analgesia should include strategies to reduce side effects. Intravenous analgesics are generally considered to be adequate for pain management in upper GI laparoscopic surgeries. However opioids can lead to nausea, vomiting and itching while NSAIDs

Eligibility and type of the study: This prospective randomized placebo-controlled double-blind study will be conducted after approval from the Institutional Ethics Committee and obtaining a written informed consent from patients undergoing elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy under general

Spinal anesthesia (SA) in pediatrics began to be used in the late nineteenth century in multiple procedures, with the priority for high-risk and former preterm infants, for its suggested protective role compared to the development of postoperative apnea with general anesthesia (GA) . Regional

Background and study aims Pain management post laparotomy (abdominal surgery) can be difficult and in our trust we are increasingly using rectus sheath catheters (RSCs).This is achieved by placing catheters, done by either by the surgeon or anaesthetist into the potential space between the rectus

Every year two hundred and twenty patients undergo elective caesarean section (CS) at the department of obstetric and gynaecologic surgery at Zealand University Hospital. The vast majority of these patients undergo the surgical procedure under spinal (subarachnoid) anaesthesia with Bupivacaine with

Cesarean section may result in great trauma and postoperative pain. Besides incision pain, uterine contraction pain is another source of postoperative pain after cesarean section. In clinical practice, a large amount of uterine contraction agent is routinely applied after cesarean section so as to

Study design and patients: This study will be conducted using a prospective, single-arm pre-/post-intervention design over 2 years. Fifty consecutive stage 3 and 4 CKD patients with resistant hypertension from the Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region (RQHR) multidisciplinary CKD clinic who agree to

Caesarean section rate is growing in western countries (from 9% by 1980, to 12% by 1990 up to 22-24% in 2002)1. Pain after Caesarean section involves 2 components, somatic pain from the wound and visceral pain from uterine contractions2. Different mechanisms underlie somatic and visceral pain