Background/purpose With the advent of minimally invasive gallbladder surgery, and now
with natural orifice techniques emerging, visceral nociception has been neglected as a …

Objective The use of epidural analgesia is considered fundamental in Enhanced Recovery
Protocols. However its value in the perioperative management of laparoscopic colorectal …

Purpose To compare the efficacies of opioid-free anesthesia (OFA) and opioid-based
anesthesia (OBA) in laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC). Patients and Methods A total of 150 …

BACKGROUND: The study was designed to compare the effect of intraincisional vs
intraperitoneal infiltration of levobupivacaine 0.25% on post-operative pain in laparoscopic …

Methods: Prospectively collected data on 433 patients undergoing laparoscopic or
laparoscopic-assisted colon surgery at a single institution were retrospectively reviewed …

Background Despite the laparoscopic approach becoming the standard in colorectal
surgery, postoperative pain management for minimally invasive surgery is still mainly based …

Background: Lumbar spine surgery is associated with moderate-to-severe postoperative
pain. Adequate pain management during the postoperative period facilitates rehabilitation …

Laparoscopy approach to cholecystectomy has shortened the recovery period, reducing
discharge times from 1 to 3 days to same-day discharge. We hypothesize that the use of …

Compared with the open approach, laparoscopy has been shown to significantly reduce
postoperative pain. Improving postoperative analgesia in laparoscopic surgery is an area of …

Background The preemptive intravenous and intraperitoneal application of local anesthetics
is known to improve the postoperative outcome in abdominal surgery. The aim of this study …