CAUDAL ANALGESIA FOR POSTOPERATIVE PAIN RELIEF IN CHILDREN

Overview

Journal Med J Armed Forces India

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2017 Aug 4

PMID 28769405

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Authors

K R Sivashankar

S K Dass

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Abstract

Postoperative pain relief in 40 children undergoing elective infraumbilical surgery was assessed after caudal epidural adminstration of either lignocaine or bupivacaine in the doses of 0.5 mL/kg body weight of a 1 per cent solution and 0.5 mL/kg body weight of a 0.25 per cent solution respectively. Pain free period was assessed by subjective pain scales. The pain free period was significantly prolonged in children who were given bupivacaine (14.75 ± 2.75 hours) as compared to lignocaine (7.25 ± 3.25 hours).

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