PAIN RELIEF AFTER ABDOMINAL SURGERY—A COMPARISON OF I.M. MORPHINE, SUBLINGUAL BUPRENORPHINE AND SELF-ADMINISTERED I.V. PETHIDINE
- 1 April 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in British Journal of Anaesthesia
- Vol. 54 (4) , 421-428
- https://doi.org/10.1093/bja/54.4.421
Abstract
Patients (126) undergoing upper and lower abdominal surgery were studied after operation to compare the analgesic effects of i.m. morphine, sublingual buprenorphine and self-administered i.v. pethidine by Cardiff Palliator. There were no significant differences between analgesic regimens in respect to subjective linear analog pain scores or static and dynamic lung volumes assessed at 24 and 48 h after operation and 5 days after operation in patients who underwent upper abdominal surgery. Sublingual buprenorphine produced more nausea and sedation than the other 2 treatments, but the differences were not clinically important. It offered considerable advantages in terms of ease of administration.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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- COMPARISON OF BUPRENORPHINE, PETHIDINE AND PENTAZOCINE FOR THE RELIEF OF PAIN AFTER OPERATIONBritish Journal of Anaesthesia, 1977