Pre-Operative versus Postoperative Surgical Analgesia

Volume 11 , Issue 1 , December 2008 , Pages 127-134

Authors

¹ College of Medicine, University of Sulaimani

² Sulaimani Teaching Hospital Kurdistan Region\ Iraq

Background; postoperative pain remain the most common dilemma for surgical patients, there are many

methods for control of pain, either by conventional postoperative analgesia or preoperative analgesia.

The aim; is to evaluate the benefit of Diclofenac as pre-operative analgesia in comparison to the

postoperative conventional treatments.

Methods and Patients; this study includes patients of different age and sex groups, underwent different

elective and emergency surgical operations,

They divided in to two groups:

- Group A (100 patients): controlled group, were received pre-operative analgesia.

- Group B (100 patients): compared group, were received the conventional analgesia.

Results; thirty eight percent of patients in group A have significant pain versus eighty six percent of the

patients in group B (P value 0.0000)

Preoperative analgesia as single dose of Diclofenac is more effective in control of postoperative pain

than conventional postoperative analgesia.

Conclusion; we could say that the pre-operative (pre-emptive) analgesia is safe, feasible, well tolerant,

less costly and more effective for the control of different types of the surgical pain.

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