Postoperative pain is still inadequately relieved despite substantial improvements in the
knowledge of the mechanisms and treatment of pain [1]. Evidence suggests that inadequate …

BACKGROUND: Few individual clinical trials have had sufficient subject numbers to
definitively determine the effects of postoperative analgesia on major outcomes. METHODS …

BACKGROUND: The transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block is an effective method of
providing postoperative analgesia in patients undergoing midline abdominal wall incisions …

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Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures has provided essential nursing knowledge and up-to …

Background and Objectives: The abdominal wall is a significant source of pain after
abdominal surgery. Anterior abdominal wall analgesia may assist in improving …

Objective: A prospective randomized controlled trial (RCT) of multimodal perioperative
management protocol in patients undergoing elective colorectal resection for cancer. Aims …

Background Postoperative ileus (POI) remains an inevitable consequence of abdominal
surgery. Although the pathogenesis of delayed gastrointestinal transit in the postoperative …

Stress has a major impact on gut physiology and may affect the clinical course of gastro-
intestinal diseases. In this review, we focus on the interaction between commensal gut …

El dolor es frecuentemente infravalorado, y por tanto insuficientemente tratado en los
pacientes críticos. Las respuestas psicológicas, hemodinámicas, metabólicas y …

BACKGROUND: Epidural anesthesia may attenuate the sympathetic hyperactivity and stress
response from surgery. In this study, we compared the stress response, hemodynamic …