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Anesthesia
Research in the area of anesthesia reported from K.G. Stravodimos and colleagues
September 1st, 2008
According to recent research from Athens, Greece, " General and spinal anesthesia are currently in widespread use during transurethral bladder tumor resection. However, local anesthetic methods are claimed to provide sufficient intra-operative analgesia and satisfactory post-operative pain management." "We evaluated whether local levobupivacaine infiltration of the tumor would result in outcomes, in terms of intra-operative analgesia, similar to those for utilization of general anesthesia. Post-operative analgesia and patient satisfaction were also assessed. Patients and methods Twenty patients with recurrent solitary bladder tumors were randomly allocated in two...
Source: Pain & Central Nervous System Week (2008-09-01)
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