Although postoperative pain remains incompletely controlled in some settings, increased
understanding of its mechanisms and the development of several therapeutic approaches …

Analysis of the problem of surgical pain is important in view of the fact that the success of
surgical treatment depends largely on proper pain management during the first few days …

Respiratory depression limits the use of opioid analgesia. Although well described clinically,
the specific mechanisms of opioid action on respiratory control centres in the brain have …

Background This is an updated version of the original Cochrane review published in Issue 4,
2006. Patients may control postoperative pain by self administration of intravenous opioids …

BACKGROUND: Thoracotomy induces severe postoperative pain and impairment of
pulmonary function, and therefore regional analgesia has been intensively studied in this …

Résumé Introduction Plusieurs strategies ont ete proposees pour le contrôle de la douleur
postoperatoire. Parmi ces strategies, la lidocaıne par voie intraveineuse suscite un intereˆt …

Epidural analgesia is a well-established technique that has commonly been regarded as the
gold standard in postoperative pain management. However, newer, evidence-based …

Thoracic epidural anaesthesia (TEA) reduces cardiac and splanchnic sympathetic activity
and thereby influences perioperative function of vital organ systems. A recent meta-analysis …

DESPITE recent advances in our understanding of the physiology of acute pain, the
development of new opioid and nonopioid analgesics and novel methods of drug delivery …

BACKGROUND: Improving perioperative efficiency and throughput has become
increasingly important in the modern practice of anesthesiology. Fast-track surgery …