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Intrathecal buprenorphine for postoperative analgesia in the elderly patient
- Source :
- Anaesthesia. 43:128-130
- Publication Year :
- 2007
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2007.
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Abstract
- Ninety patients aged 56-85 years scheduled for suprapubic prostatectomy, randomly received intrathecally either bupivacaine 30 mg (group A, n = 30), bupivacaine 30 mg plus buprenorphine 0.03 mg (group B, n = 30) or bupivacaine 30 mg plus buprenorphine 0.045 mg (group C, n = 30). Prolonged postoperative analgesia, minimal disturbance of consciousness and comfortable breathing were common to the groups that received buprenorphine. The higher concentration of buprenorphine improved the quality and duration of analgesia. The only side effects found in the buprenorphine groups were nausea and vomiting in 11 and 14 patients, respectively, in groups B and C. Our study shows that buprenorphine is an effective analgesic, suitable for the management of postoperative pain in elderly patients.
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Time Factors
Nausea
Suprapubic Prostatectomy
medicine.medical_treatment
Analgesic
Anesthesia, Spinal
law.invention
Double-Blind Method
Randomized controlled trial
law
medicine
Humans
Injections, Spinal
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Prostatectomy
Bupivacaine
Pain, Postoperative
business.industry
Respiration
Middle Aged
Buprenorphine
Surgery
Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Anesthesia
Vomiting
medicine.symptom
business
medicine.drug
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 13652044 and 00032409
- Volume :
- 43
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Anaesthesia
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3b76b8a6ba36e540ae6cf735a3101cf4