BACKGROUND: Preemptive injection of local anesthetics can prevent postoperative pain at
the incision site, but the analgesic effect is insufficient and is maintained only for a relatively …

Background In order to reduce the consequences of narcotic-related side effects and
provide effective analgesia after craniotomy, we conducted a randomized trial to compare …

Background Local anesthetic infiltration has been used to manage postoperative pain in
various surgeries. The present study was aimed to investigate the effect of skin infiltration …

Background: Approximately 55–87% of the patients undergoing craniotomy experience
moderate to severe pain during the first 48 hrs after surgery, which negatively influences …

Background Incision-site infiltration with local anesthetics prevents pain on incision site, but
pain relief is limited to the first few postoperative hours. Dexamethasone as an adjuvant to …

Objective: Determine the effect of scalp infiltration on postoperative craniotomy pain with
0.5% bupivacaine with adrenaline 1: 400,000. Material and Method: A prospective …

Background Pain after craniotomy remains a poorly controlled problem that is mainly caused
by the inflammatory reaction at the incision site. Nowadays, systemic opioids use, as first …

This prospective, double-blind, randomized, and placebo-controlled trial was performed to
evaluate the effect of preincisional scalp infiltration with 0.25% bupivacaine on the …

Local anesthetic infiltration has been proposed to decrease postoperative pain. The aim of
this study was to determine whether scalp infiltration with bupivacaine or ropivacaine would …

Introduction Pre-emptive scalp infiltration with local anaesthetics is the simplest and most
effective method to prevent postoperative incisional pain. However, local infiltration of an …