Background: Adequate postoperative pain control is important to reduce potential
cardiopulmonary complications. It is often difficult to determine dosages of narcotics for …

Purpose To examine the hypothesis that pain treatment with patient controlled analgesia
(PCA) usingiv morphine is a suitable and safe alternative to epidural analgesia in morbidly …

PURPOSE: It is difficult to balance adequate pain control against the risk of sedation and
depressed breathing in severely obese patients. This study assesses the effects of …

Background Intravenous (IV) acetaminophen has the potential to reduce postoperative
narcotic analgesic requirement but this has not been reported in bariatric surgery. As lower …

Patient‐controlled analgesia is a relatively new method of administering intravenous
narcotics for postoperative pain relief. The technique involves the self‐administration of a …

Introduction: One of the benefits of laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGBP)
includes decreased pain, possibly resulting in decreased narcotic use, quicker recovery of …

Objective. To investigate the incidence of and risk factors for moderate to severe pain during
the first 24 hours after laparoscopic bariatric surgery. Materials and Methods. This …

Background After bariatric surgery, patients are at risk for narcotic-related side effects [1].
Multimodal pain management strategies should be used when possible to reduce the …

Some evidence exist to suggest that women experience more pain and require more
medication than men to achieve a similar state of analgesia. However, this was not studied …

Objective: To investigate whether a new anaesthesia protocol can reduce opioid use in
obese patients following laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy. Methods: This prospective …