Surgery and Anesthesiology

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Immediate postoperative pain management in adult patients following orthopaedic surgery at the Kenyatta national hospital

Unknown author (University of Nairobi, 2007)

Background: Postoperative pain is a major challenge in the care of surgical patients yet pain therapy is a central medical task and a legal duty and optimum pain control is a fundamental right for all patients. Objective: ...
Intentional Unilateral Epidural Block for Surgery in a Pregnant Patient

S Okelo, JG Kabugi (AJOL, 2013)

Unilateral epidural block often results inadvertently during routine epidurals. It can however be used intentionally to provide analgesia selectively to the limb being operated. We present an application of this approach ...