Background: Although promising in experimental studies of post‐traumatic pain, the concept
of pre‐emptive analgesia is still controversial in a clinical setting. Thus, we wanted to …

The aim of the study is to evaluate the efficacy of post-incisional wound infiltration with
levobupivacaine in preventing the postoperative pain associated with inguinal hernia repair …

Background: In this study we compare the postoperative pain relief for inguinal herniotomy
in children provided by instillation of bupivacaine into the wound with that provided by a …

We designed this double-blind study to evaluate the efficacy of preemptive epidural
bupivacaine and small-dose morphine for postoperative analgesia in children after …

The purpose of this study was to compare the effect of local anaesthesia (LA) with that of
caudal anaesthesia (CA) on postoperative care of children undergoing inguinal hernia …

A prospective randomised study was performed to compare postoperative analgesia
produced by caudal block with that of local wound infiltration in 54 children following …

Background: It has been demonstrated that tramadol is an effective analgesic. We aimed to
compare postoperative analgesic effects of wound infiltration with tramadol (T) or …

In recent years there has been increasing interest in peripheral mechanisms of nociception
and the afferent nerve terminal and its surroundings as a possible target for analgesics and …

Background: Administration of local anaesthetics into the surgical wound may modulate pain
at the peripheral level. A previous study in adults has shown good analgesic effects of …

Fifty children who underwent day case herniotomy received either a caudal injection of 1
ml/kg bupivacaine 0.25% or infiltration of the wound edges at the end of surgery with 0.5 …