Given the expanding role of ambulatory surgery and the need to facilitate an earlier hospital
discharge, improving postoperative pain control has become an increasingly important issue …

Acute pain after laparoscopic cholecystectomy is complex in nature. The pain pattern does
not resemble pain after other laparoscopic procedures, suggesting that analgesic treatment …

IMPLICATIONS: Many trials assessing the benefits of intraperitoneal local anesthetics in
laparoscopic cholecystectomy have been performed. This systematic review and meta …

Pain relief after laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) is an issue of great practical importance.
Pain after LC has several origins: incisional, local visceral, peritoneal, and referred. Several …

Background The aim of this study was to test the use of preincisional and intraperitoneal
levobupivacaine (LB) 0.25% in laparoscopic cholecystectomies for postoperative analgesia …

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

Background: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy has advantages over the open procedure for
postoperative pain. However, a systematic review of postoperative pain management in this …

ABSTRACT… Introduction: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is the treatment of choice for
symptomatic cholelithiasis. Intraperitoneal instillation of bupivacaine is one of the methods …

Local anaesthetics (LA) are increasingly being used intraoperatively for the prevention of
postoperative pain. The efficacy of local anaesthetic infiltration into incision sites has only …

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